ATLANTIC CENTRAL...And yes, building a good environment for the layout is important.
Definitely! A relatively constant temperature and humidity year round, good lighting and adequate electrical service, along with a finished room that's dust-free will be a great benefit. It can pretty-well eliminate track cleaning, too.
Wayne
dknelson I do believe that even in our enlightened age there are still "Sadie Hawkins Day" dances where it is the girl's job to invite the boy.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Well thank you Kevin, not being a follower of popular culture I was unaware of this fine song and it has been around nearly 20 years.
Al Capp would be proud. Maybe.
Dave Nelson
I have the oddball house. It has the extra course of block, but there is no ductwork, nor would there ever be. Just plumbing lines, as the heat is hot water, and being a ranch built when not every house was built with central air, that was added on later and the air handler and all ductwork are in the attic above the main floor. So I'm not sure why they made the basement ceiling extra high, but it meant I could go under the support beam with the drop ceiling and STILL be at about 7 1/2 feet.
Granted this has been a rather mild winter, but the heat in the basement has been shut off since early November and it's never gotten cold down there. All I have to do it put the thermostat back on the wall, but I got talked into another project that needed the drywall anchors I needed to mount the thermostat/ Insulating the walls, plus the heat given off by the furnace and water heater, seem to be sufficient though. According to a sensor I set up down there, it's been holding at 38% humidity and about 67 degrees.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Well If I could build a dream layout
I would end up with a bowl of spaggetie track and mixed nation trains called Amozland not a model railroad
I would want a rail network consisting of yards stations some the model rail interpritation and some the real rail interpritation I would want industries to switch.
And as many miles of track as I could get in some of which would have to be hidden so it did not look like a spagettie bowl, and I would have to choose which nations scenery to build for some consistency on the whole thing.
Not very model railroad like I know, the problem is all those interesting and different looking trains out there
regards John
My wish list, well I'm in trouble since my room is 45' x26' and I will use it for a N scale layout ( full of ), yes I have a near 1220' square room! The room has a parallelogram form, one side is 28' and the other is 24.5', the lenght is 45'
The ongoing track plan yet not fisnished includes severals features.
First it's a single deck layout, for the most a single track mainline.
The design is walkaround, the main doubling on itself but in a special design, the main include one main big yard and three or four smaller one, three interchange with small staging yard; the main is a point to point with staging yard at each end including a return loop.
The walkaround is designed with two big peninsula in the middle of the room.
The Maclauriver line is a parallel line of the N&W; she start next Norfolk and end at Cincinati and follow the Maclauriver and go through the Virginia ccoal fields
Main line is estimated between 550 feet to 700 feet, following some design not completely defined yet, no scene deeper than 2.5'
The main has, like I say, a special feature, its a single main line which double on itself, but like divided in two; there is a starting point at the town of Corinnesburgh, there one part of the main is going up with a gentle 2.5% maximum grade, but from this starting point the rest of the main is going down with a gentle 1.8% maximum down grade, this part feature an along river line, the Maclauriver, on the edge of the layout.
Between the lowest point of the main and the highest, I will have around 2.5 feet of elevation, naturaly gained in a small grade.
The river will feature some port allowing me to model some ships and the upper part of the main is a coal country line with numerous mine but also little local industries.
Corinnesburgh is in the midden of line where the two half of line begun, this town also is next the biggest yard of the sytem ( a 13 track ladder yard); the line end at Port allen for the river run which is just ( fictitious) next of Norfolk and the upper town of Ellezelleburgh ( from the town where I lived in belgium) next of Cincinati.
N&W use by agreement he Maclau river line when traffic is surcharged on the N&W lines, there are two interchange with the N&W at Port allen and at Linwood.
Work on the layout will begun probably this winter.
Marc_MagnusWork on the layout will begun probably this winter.
Marc, I hope you are able to post a lot of pictures. Your plans sound great.
I don't thing I'll live long enough to ever finish a layout that size!
York1 John
dknelsonWell thank you Kevin, not being a follower of popular culture I was unaware of this fine song and it has been around nearly 20 years.
All OK. That song was never popular!
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