I'm getting close to completing the room addition and I'm already thinking that I want to rework the brand new layout, why would I do this when I haven't even had a chance to run trians on the one I just finished,?
Well for starters I haven't run any train because I'm working on a train control system and command consol that is based on the switching console up front in one of the ambulances I drive, I came across the oppertunity to strip out the cab of an ambulance and for my efforts I could keep any of the old cab interior so I removed and marked the 20 & 10 switch systems that power all the emergency and scene lights on a box ambulance so this panel is the bases of my track and lighting switches, so no working control console...no running trains.
Now with the new room I have a chance to cure a bummer of a problem I'm having, I go into the room where the layout is now, look it over and I'm already board with the towns look, and this is with out even running a train through it.
I had this brillant idea, I'm going to re build the whole layout this time I'm going to make each building lot with the same foot print this way if I get sick of a scene I can just pluck it off the layout and put down another, there will be some elements that will remain the same like the tracks and the roads, a pond, quarry, Tunnel, Tele poles , trees and bushes.
with this new idea I'll be able to always work on interchangeable scenes so there will be no getting sick of the way my town looks and if ever I have to move the layout, I can just flip up the hinged top to make it through a door and roll it into another room then place the structures and their lots back on it else where, I got the idea of the flip top after the ceiling collaps killed off my first layout.
Well, I'm off to work, have a great day folks, see you on down the tracks!
Jess Red Horse of the "Transformers Tribe".
Red Horse wrote: Well for starters I haven't run any train because I'm working on a train control system and command consol that is based on the switching console up front in one of the ambulances I drive, I came across the oppertunity to strip out the cab of an ambulance and for my efforts I could keep any of the old cab interior so I removed and marked the 20 & 10 switch systems that power all the emergency and scene lights on a box ambulance so this panel is the bases of my track and lighting switches, so no working control console...no running trains.
Jesse, that's great! I'm glad to see someone else using those great old lighted switches. Mine came out of a couple of old fire trucks and an ambulance. I still have some extra parts and pieces in my electronics spare parts box. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
Red Horse wrote:..., I'm going to re build the whole layout this time I'm going to make each building lot with the same foot print this way if I get sick of a scene I can just pluck it off the layout and put down another, there will be some elements that will remain the same like the tracks and the roads, ...with this new idea I'll be able to always work on interchangeable scenes so there will be no getting sick of the way my town looks ...
with this new idea I'll be able to always work on interchangeable scenes so there will be no getting sick of the way my town looks ...
"Great minds think alike" (LOL) - I've been planning to do interchanging structures/land forms along my outer main line for the past couple of years, just haven't gotten around to painting and assembling the kits yet. It's an excellent solution to a lack of mrr real estate.
BTW I found out somebody else already had this idea and published an article about it in one of the 2007 issues of MR (can't remember the exact month unfortunately...)
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)