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Have been wanting to build a layout for the past 10 years, about the time since I had my last setup. I have had plans to fini***he basement for about the last 7 years, since we moved into a new house, but never quite got around to it. Once again, this past November, I started planning a 12' by 22' room layout for the basement, once the basement got finished. Who am I kidding? I'll never get this basement finished. I don't have the time or energy or 'want' to do drywall, and I am planning on moving in the next few years. So, while skipping through Linn Westcott's 101 Track Plans, I came across his 'Port Ogden and Northern' shelf-style layout, and knew immediately that this plan was just the ticket for me to get back into model railroading until the time and place comes that I can build a room layout. My last layout was around the walls shelf style, done on 2' x 4' plywood sheets screwed to metal shelf holders, flat flat flat, Atlas snap track, Atlas remote switches, not an ounce of scenery. Lot's more track, and wired with many blocks, etc, but really not too far from my old 4x8 layout I had when I was 10 years old.. The PO&N is very different: L-girder benchwork, elevation-galore, and with it comes the need to actually learn all the skills I have read in MR for the past 30 years. For now, as part of the design, plan, and fitting of the parts, I am using my old box of Atlas track and conventional DC power to set up the basics. Things are changing though. I have Tortoise switch machines waiting to replace the old Atlas 'above the benchwork' switches; the Atlas code 100 snap track will be replaced with code 83 flex track; I have an MRC Prodigy Advance DCC system sitting on the workbench with 2 decoder-equipped locos, one of which it was 'solder-phobic' me who installed the decoder into! And, above all else, I have scenery to do. I used my first plaster cloth a few weeks ago. I have bridges that I had to build(and yet paint and weather) and now position. I have a river to do. Stuff I've never done before. (Of course, I can see in some ways why I stuck to the old flat top before: trains get running a lot quicker if you set up a flat, non-scenicked railroad!) Anyhow, pics can be found at the link below(select the Model Railroad link!) Excuse some of the photo quality, it was a little dark in my unfinished basement, some of the photos are a little shakey.) http://www.quickmire.com
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