ModelRailroader.com Reader Poll – March 4, 2003

[Anonymous]

Progress is coming along slowly due to lack of funds,benchwork is up starting to lay track need tracklaying materials ( roadbed,foam )hopefully funding will be coming soon need to take care of bills first. plan to complete tracklaying project next month.

[john lea]

Hey Big Boy, the first table looks like your building a card table for the Friday evening card games! lol
Yes this was the first winter to restart my Ho after a 3o year plus being a very busy person. It took quite a bit of work to get a room. actually a cabin, small but private and secure. After 6 weeks of sorting old things and family member items. I orderd some road bed last night and today I'll get some lumber and start the grid work. Wednesday I took my old locos to a shop in Sacto to see if and how much it will cost to rebuild and get dcc ready. I've been planing it for a while, drawing,erasing and so on. Found a book "Practical Guide to Model Railroading" 1952 by kalmback. It has a accurate trac and switch radius and all, great for planing. Yes the winter and spring have been good, I'm retired you know.

[Anonymous]

I've made more progress, thanks in part to a semi-regular work group that meets every month or two. It's a 14x30 foot layout, so I decided last spring that I'd need help if I were to make any progress at all.

Last winter, before I started the group, I would make periodic frenzied attacks on the layout. This year, progress is more steady. It's not even that the workgroup is doing the bulk of the work - there's three or four, and we're here for about four hours. But in between worksessions, I seem to be more reliably getting down to the layout, because when the crew shows up next, I want there to be progress since the last time.

Last year at this time, benchwork was half-done, with nothing running. Now, all benchwork is done, 80 percent of the mainline is in, the three staging yards are in place (not yet wired), and basic landforms are done for about 70 percent of the layout.

Ray Persing

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Cincinnati and Western Railway Company

Check out photos at http://modelraildayton.com/div3lpix10.shtml

[Anonymous]

After suffering a heart attack in early Feb, I've had plenty of time to work on my rr, since I'm out of work until the middle of April. What is a setback to me, has been a boon to my little town. By the way, I'm 37, not overweight and am now fully aware of the dangers of high cholersterol.

[Anonymous]

no building on my layout yet, but did do alot of planning on my lay out design. I broke my leg and ankle, on superbowl sunday, needless to say my funds have been drained. I had planned on starting my layout this spring.

[DonaldAgne]

My layout is finished, and don't have enough room in my small apartment for another one, so now only building models and a small railroad diorama. Finished my layout in a year, from January 2002 to January 2003. I was able to work on it only on weekends and holidays and still made pretty good progress. If anyone is interested in what techniques I used to finish it so quickly, let me know, and I'll pass on what I learned.

You can view my layout at http://ddwngauge.homestead.com/index.html

[dand200]

I've started my first serious new layout in my first home. I am learning a lot and since it didn't exist this time last year and the trains are running now looking for industry to serve, I would would say I've made excellent progress.

[Anonymous]

I've made huge progress at christmas I was running a 4x8 and I cut and built it into a 14x8 with a 5 track yard ,6 sidings and a2 track staging area yet to be built. This summer I hope to finish laying track and then it's on to buildings and scenery
Andy

[Anonymous]

plenty progress in planing but looking at a room with no layout is depressing
ohh well im gona do good with my extra planning

[cwclark]

I try to make progress every chance I get...Just tore down layout #4 (which was of course unfinished,) moved to the country, and finally got my dream layout room. 23' x 25'! (It's even bigger than the 15' x 20' I build in the early 80's)...The contractors just finished removing a garage door and bricking up the big hole in the wall and this Friday , I officially start building! ...here comes the track lighting and next weekend, up goes the benchwork!

[espeefoamer]

Picking up a loco or car occasainally,but no layout.[:(]