I'll second what Spartan has said.
If you have a chance, those of us that have been following your work might learn something if you could let us know what you didn't like about the plan's execution.
I've been rethinking my own plans as overly ambitious, and thinking of scrapping my SP Ventura Subdivision plans for something much simpler. It was great fun to design, but daunting to build.
Ray
Well it has been a real pleasure watching your progress on this layout. But when its not working it's not working. I hope you are able to regain some great ideas for the next layout and get you back to the enjoyment you were expecting in this layout. Hopefully you can put all that HO track and beautiful cars you bought to good use. I hope to see you back on the forums again at some point as you really do excellent work and are a real craftsman
I've decided that I don't like this layout enough to keep it. It all looked good on paper but after building it I'm not happy with it. No sense in investing more time and money into a project I don't like.
I have no idea at this point what I'm going to try next and no idea as to when I might start another layout. So for the foreseeable future I'm off the hobby.
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
On a side note, Michael, the SBB RAe Tee II did not only do the service from Milan to Zurich and back, but also a service as TEE Cisalpine/Cisalpino from Milan to Paris.
I personally think this train was the most elegant among the TEE trains of the 1960´s. Congratulations on an excellent purchase!
Sir MadogYou have been running full steam ahead for quite some time now. I guess you deserve some R & R.
I totally agree! If I modelled at the pace that you have been keeping up I would have been exhausted long ago! I model when I want to model, and that isn't every day.
Cheers Michael! We will eagerly, and patiently, await your next instalments.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
You have been running full steam ahead for quite some time now. I guess you deserve some R & R.
Bis Miss your updates, hope all is well.
Miss your updates, hope all is well.
I don't feel like model railroading right now...
I kept working adding roadbed and drilling switch machine holes...
-E-C-Mills It looks like everything is going to flow very nicely.
It looks like everything is going to flow very nicely.
That's the idea!
Not much to show, I'm running the laser to produce roadbed and as it comes out I'm installing it, drilling holes for switch machines as well.
The main line has reached the Wellershausen station. Now I have to laser cut roadbed again (for the last time ).
I got something in the mail today as well, two cars that had been out of stock arrived today:
I made it around the curve and halfway up the ramp to Wellershausen today:
Michael, there definitely was a lot of packaging with your train, but I have to agree with South Penn. I got a box not too long ago that was squashed to about 2/3rds of its original size. It looked like someone had tried to make an accordian out of it. I feared the worst. Fortunately the person who packed it used a bigger box than necessary so the contents survived intact.
It might have been excessive packaging, but it's better than showing up broken, like a lot of stuff from US vendors.
Today I encountered a case of excessive packaging. A few weeks ago I had ordered a train from a vendor in Germany and it arrived today. When the box showed up I was afraid that I had picked the wrong scale:
I could have shipped 2 of my shop vacs in this box! So I opened it up very carefully:
Lots of packaging material and something yellow in there... Digging deeper I found this:
It's H0! And you could have shipped a dozen of these trains in that box! I took of the lid:
Just a not so long passenger train...
This is a model of the Gottardo electric TEE train which in the real world only ran between Switzerland and Italy as far as I know but I will make it run to Germany as well and so it ends up on my layout.
I took it out of the box and here it is sitting next to it's diesel brother:
I've started to lay track in the tunnel that runs between Bad Adomeit and Wellershausen:
hon30critter Glad to know I'm not the only one with a cluttered workbench! Dave
Glad to know I'm not the only one with a cluttered workbench!
Oh no, you're not alone!
Just for fun, here's a picture of my temporary 'workbench' on the Breitenbach peninsula:
The Bad Adomeit station is almost complete. What's missing is one spur that will connect to a so far undefined industry and the connection to the branch line. The branch line will have to wait until the main line has neem completed because right now I'm using part of the Breitenbach peninsula as a temporary work bench for my track laying tools & supplies.
Here are a few pictures of Bad Adomeit as it looks today:
I have completed the second main line track at the Bad Adomeit station and installed the last few turnouts as well:
I added some track and several turnouts to the opposite end of the station:
I've added a few turnouts and a few feet of track at the Bad Adomeit station:
I've started to lay track at the Bad Adomeit station:
I finished the eastbound track of the main line today:
The westbound track of the main line has reached the Bad Adomeit station:
I added the second layer of roadbed to the long tunnel between the Bad Adomeit and the Wellershausen stations, then painted it gray as well.
Before I can lay more track I have to prepare the Bad Adomeit station. Today I drilled holes for 15 switch machines, installed the second layer of roadbed, and painted/sealed the roadbed with grey paint.