The Saga of My Ever Shrinking Railroad...Part Deux

[ttrigg]

Vic:

Your "plans rendering" looks good. Adds quite a bit more to "visualizing" concepts. What program did you use?

[vsmith]

Windows Picture, the photo editing feature has a limited paint program. Not much but its usefull.

[gbbari]

Vic - I re-checked and looked at the original layout sketch that you linked to much earlier in this thread (black and white drawing) and it was much clearer than the color version you linked to recently.  The B&W drawing clearly showed trackage that I did not see on the color version (probably my monitor resolution or something local) and that lines up with the photos and rendering.  Sorry for the confusion.

[vsmith]

OK now I know what the confusion was, The color version shows the tunnels that will be behind the buildings its colored solid, sorry for that.

[SNOWSHOE]

Looks like it is going to be a nice layout.  Im glad you might be able to pick up work again on your layout.  I have been waiting for more progress and pictures cant wait to see more. 

[Anonymous]

Hang more dry wall, pick up the 2x4s you slave!

Toad

[vsmith]

Well the shrinking rairoad has done the Big Shrink, yet again, almost out of existance. Too many other outside pressures means I'v had to pull it up again from its permanant benchwork which have been reassigned to other uses. This turn of event is a major reason behind my downsizing. I still have the Portable Pizza, which will be my primary focus from here on out. I'm planning to add yet another (R1 loop) layer too it, this time it will be on rollers so it can be moved about, but my 10year dream and seamingly constant struggle to push the boulder up the hill and build a large permanant room size layout is over for good, or at least until I can freely devote a dedicated space (indoor or out) that will not have to do double duty with other uses, maybe in 10 or 20 years when I retire, or is that IF retire...but this is the 5th time I've had to dismantle a layout and quite frankly thats more than enough for a while... I'm still deciding whether to add to this thread for the new Portable additions or to add to the already developed Portable building log, thats all I had to say

[ttrigg]

[vsmith]

Yeah aint it...on MLS I was asked why after rebuilding the garage I have to tear down the layout yet again heres my answer and a pic on my new "downsized" direction:

...The garage was never rebuilt specificly for the layout, it was because the old one was in danger of falling over, and the attached room was intended for a home work studio but has morphed into a storage room, thats one of the big hangups, all the crap I cannot seam to convince the boss we need to dispose of, if I want to clear that room out I need to move it to the garage, so the layout which eats up a big chunk of the garage had to go to make room for things as well as an old car I either have to restore or get rid of. Add in my bikes and bike tools and the movable portable micro-layout starts making a hellova lot more sense...

 

 

Heres the new direction, with the existing portable nested on top so it will still be removable for exhibition. The entire thing will be on rollers so its possible to move it around as well. This plan shows an attachable fiddle track shelf at the rear, still thinking about that. Bit of a big change aint it? ....

 

Progress of the Portable can be followed here, beginning about page 5 or 6:

 

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/98019.aspx?PageIndex=1

 

[SandyR]

Oh man, Vic, what a bummer! That was such a nice trackplan that you had, too, and I'm sure that there were many more folks besides me who were looking forward to pictures of the finished layout (or at least, in progress)...Please don't give up on it altogether; some day maybe things will turn around and you can build it!

SandyR 

[ttrigg]

Triple Decker Pizza! Plan looks good, however, the "stub line" on the east (right) side looks as if it needs to be a bit longer. I still say it needs to curve around the north (top) side and become an auto-reversing streetcar.

[ttrigg]

Maybe you could bash a Mack into self-propelled coal mine car for the auto-reversing line?