Layout at a glance.

[Anonymous]

I'm ready.

Name: Rockhard Central
Scale: HO
Size: 9 x 11
Style: Around the wall
Local: Journey across the west
Era: Flexible 1940-1990
Track: Atlas Code 100
Turnouts: Atlas #4 & #6
Roadbed: cork
Height: 54"
Minimum curve: 22" radius
Max grade: 0.5 %
Control: MRC Control Master 20, Tech 3 9500

[AggroJones]

We've got another set of new members. Here is your chance to respond. [8D]

[jeffshultz]

Layout at a glance

Name: Willamette & Pacific
Scale: 1:87
Size: 2'x8' with additional extensions
Height: 41"
Style: Shelf
Period: Semi-current
Locale: Oregon's Willamette Valley
Theme: Protolance, based on Willamette & Pacific and Portland & Western RR's
Scenery: Foam
Control: Prodigy DCC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: Unknown, but steep
Minimum radius: around 22"
Backdrop: None
Fascia: 1/8" hardwood

Based on the current Portland & Western (PNWR) Oregon Electric Branch, I'm modeling a section in north Salem, OR while I wait to move someplace with more room. The PNWR used to be the WPRR - a name I like better.

[scubaterry]

Here's mine

Name: NYC (very mythical subdivision in the NE)
Scale: 1:87
Size: 13 X 7 around one half of the room with duckunder. 24 inch depth.
Height: 50 in.
Frame: L- Girder
Period: 1950's
Control: Digitrax Super Chief
Roadbed: Mainline HO cork roadbed, All else N scale cork
Track: All code 100
Max grade: Flatter than a pancake (that's the mythical part)
Min radius: 22 in
Length of mainline: 40 ish feet X 2 (double main)
Fascia: Painted pine

One end is a 98% copy of the Union freight featured in MR back in Sept thru Dec 2000 by John Pryke. I only added one additional spur and eliminated the buildings on the inside curve and replaced them with a two line main to give me a roundy roundy as well as lots of switching. It was fun to build and actually came together just like the article. As far as the complete layout I have completed two sections of the four. I just bought a real nifty digital camera and if I could figure out how to post pics I would.
Terry

[selector]

Name: Sentinel Mountain Rail Road
Scale: 1:87
Size: 8’ X 11’
Height: 42"
Style: table
Period: Late steam, transition
Locale: Freelance
Theme: Coal mining, small village with combo freight and pax station, cement factory
Scenery: Foam, plaster cloth, some Hydrocal, plaster cast rocks, two-part epoxy water
Control: DiGitrax Super Empire Builder
Roadbed: EZ-Track, plastic on foam, shallow ballasted with local beach sand
Track: Code 100
Max grade: 4%, but 3.6% average
Minimum radius: 22"
Backdrop: None…yet (picked up foam board today, will suspend from joists above)
Fascia: None, but wife has agreed to install curtain-type skirt. Fascia not really needed.

[ACRR46]

Layout at a glance

Name: Allegheny Central
Scale: 1:87 HO
Size: 55' x 2' with 2 peninsulas
Height: 48"-54"
Style: Shelf
Period: 1955-1965
Locale: West Virginia
Theme: Coal Mining, general freight
Scenery: Carboard strips with plaster gauge, some foam
Control: Digitrax Radio DCC
Roadbed: Cork main line, yards homosote
Track: Atlas code 100 & 83
Max grade: Max 1.5%
Minimum radius: 24", most curves 26-30"
Backdrop: 1/8" masonite painted sky blue
Fascia: 1/8' masonite installed

Mainline completed, 2 staging yards one complete one under construction.

Loosely based on Fallen Flags in the Northeast (Erie, C&O, NKP, Pennsy, NYC, LV)

Frank

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Iron Ridge and Western
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 50x4
Height: 45"
Style: Shelf
Period: 2004-2005
Locale: Central Illinois
Theme: Freelance --EJE and BNSF/ UP tranfer route with 1 yard and 6 industries
Scenery: paper castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed:cork/ foam
Track: code 83
Max grade: 0.765%
Minimum radius: 50" mainline, 24" sidings/ yards
Backdrop: Painted cornfield and forest regions
Length of Mainline: 45 feet single track, 6 feet double track (BNSF)
Completion Date: Anytime next week, still adding finishing details and people

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Cavnough Subdivision
Scale: 1:87 HO
Size: 23x13 around the wall with 9x9 penisula
Height: 50"-53"
Style: around the Wall
Period: early 1990's
Locale: Southern Ohio
Theme: General Freight, Passenger on early csx
Scenery: Foam and ws plaster over newspaper
Control: MRC Prodigy advanced
Roadbed: AMI Instaroadbd on foam
Track: Atlas code 100
Max grade: Max2%
Minimum radius: 24", most curves 26-30"
Backdrop: brick wall painted sky blue with clouds
Fascia:not yet decided

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance--

Name- undecided
Scale- HO (1:87)
Size- 17'x9'
Height- I think it's gonna be about 48"
Style- Island
Local- Iowa
Theme- CGW in 1968 OR Iowa Northern in 2006 since I think I can get decals.
Scenery- not that far yet
Control- DC
Roadbed- Cork
Track- Mostly Atlas, all code 100
Max Grade- about 0.4%
Min radius- 18"
Backdrop, 1/4" plywood
Period- 1968 or 2006

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

Name: Iron Belt
Scale: 1:87 HO
Size: 17ft by 16ft
Height: 50"
Style: 'E'-shaped island
Period: 1990's
Locale: Northeastern Ohio
Theme: Steel mill, with a mainline attached
Scenery: Various WS materials on a latex paint base
Control: Currently DC, but wired for DCC [Digitrax Chief]
Roadbed: Cork on foam
Track: Code 100 on steel mill trackage, code 83 everywhere else
Max grade: 0.5%
Minimum radius: 30"
Backdrop: Dow board painted light blue

[SilverSpike]

Layout at a Glance*

Name: Carolina and Virginia Division (Southern, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern Railroads)
Scale: HO 1:87
Size: 15 X 16
Height: 36" (lower level) and 52" (upper level)
Style: Wall bracket around the wall and penensula G shape.
Benchwork: L-Girder 1X3 with 1X2 flange, joist on 16" centers.
Sub-roadbed: laminated 2 layers of 3/8" plywood
Roadbed: cork
Period: 1960's to modern.
Locale: North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginina, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Industry: Steel, coal, lumber, grain.
Control: DCC.
Track: code 83 throughout, code 100 in staging.
Maximum Grade: 2.25%
Minimum radius: 26"
Backdrop: styrene and 1/8" masonite

*NOTE: Most of this is the plan, as the layout is in the beginning stages of a work in progress. Click the Google Pages web site link below to view updates on the layout "Photos" page.

[ModelTrainman]

Glasgow & Tweed River
4x5
L scale
steam 1st & 2nd generation diesel
Plywood

[fsm1000]

My layout soon to be built [I hope]

Name: FSM RR
Scale: 1:48 On30
Size: two layers both 4' x 6'
Height: 36" and 54 about
Style: a pull on wheels
Period: not sure but old equipment
Locale: my living room LOL
Theme: Freelance narrow gauge
Scenery: glueshell with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: handlaid code 83 probably
Max grade: 5% on helix and 3% elsewhere
Minimum radius: 12" sidings and 18" main
Backdrop: none
Fascia: not sure yet

[Anonymous]

Layout at a glance

NAME: Russellrail ( fictional branch line to BN)
SCALE: HO 1:87
SIZE: 4X12-2.5X12 "L" shape
HEIGHT: 40"
STYLE: Free standing walk around
BENCHWORK: 1/2" PLY on box frame
PERIOD: Modern
LOCALE: Pacific NW
TRACK: Code 100 through out
MAX GRADE: 2.5%
MINIMUM RADIUS: 20"

[reklein]

Collier Bluffs and Poker Flats

HO scale

11'X14'

eastern WA,north central ID

logging,sawmill,agricultural traffic

GN,NP ,WIMR prototype

50's era

[CMSTPP]

Looks like some really nice layouts out there. Here are my stats!

Name: Milwaukee Road plains division.                  

Scale: 1/87

Size: 20' x 10'

Hieght: 46"

Style: Around one portion of the room with a duckunder.

Period: 1968

Locale: North and South Dakota.

Theme: The Milwaukee Road's plain division. Connection to the Pacific North West.

Scenery: Just getting into that.

Control: An all DCC layout.

Roadbed: traditional cork.

Track: All code 100.

Max grade: 2%

Minimum radius:  24" on corners.

It's mainly a switchng layout with a single main going around the outside of the layout. There is a second main, but is used for the industries along the layout with out fouling the main.

Happy railroading

James

[Anonymous]

Name: Colorado Western

Scale: N guage track, 1:160. NN3 shortlines

Size: 13' x 21'

Style: Shelf

Period: Modern with older tourist train mining district tours. Mostly steam with some diesel. (There is a modern diesel daily freight train, the passenger service is steam and so is the mining and logging service).

Theme: Colorado Mountains mining, logging and tourist. Some modern freight. Historic structures that have been rebuilt and put on the historic register. The whole operation is a combination of old time Narrow guage, 1920's steam standard guage, and fairly modern freight ops.

Location: Colorado Front Range to Colorado High Mountains

Track: 200' of Peco Code 80

Turnouts: Peco medium Insulfrogs

Roadbase: Woodland scenics foam

Construction: 1" x 2" frame with 2" foam, Foam Scenery covered with plaster cloth and cast rocks

Max grade: 6% (grin) (it's fun to watch those little steam engines try and make it, there is an alternate route around it)

Min radius: 11 1/2" (too tight really, Kato diesel derails on it but Atlas diesels do fine, need to fix this) I think 13" is about the right minimum. 15" is better.

Power: Bachmann DCC (need to upgrade to wireless throttles, otherwise Bachmann is doing it)

Completion: Who knows. The main loop runs now, some more switching, staging and siding track to lay and LOTS more scenery and structures.

[CSXFan]

Layout at a glance

Name: TBD
Scale: 1:160
Size: 6.5’ x 8’
Height: 40”
Style: L shaped island
Prototype: CSX / Norfolk Southern
Period: Summer of 2002
Locale: Appalachian mountains 
Theme: CSX mainline traffic and interchange with Norfolk Southern
Scenery: Carved foam board and plaster over cardboard strips
Control: NCE Powercab DCC
Roadbed: Cork and WS foam 
Track: Atlas code 55 for mainline, ME code 40 for spurs, handlaid turnouts
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 15” main, 12.5” branch line and industrial
Backdrop: Painted vinyl flashing
Fascia: TBD

Track plan and inspiration came from the Appalachian Central project railroad featured in the February and January 2000 issues of MR. All I did was double track it and broaden the curves.

 

[spidge]

I call it the Spidge

I attempted to make the text larger but I failed, but will keep attempting.

Sorry, you will have to use the zoom feature to read the print.

[tomikawaTT]

Ver-r-ry interesting!

Name(s):  Japan National Railways/Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo & others.

Scale:  1:80 (aka HOj)

Layout dimensions:  5.08m x 6.00m (16' 8" x 19' 8")

Style and construction:  walk-in, along two walls and across garage door with wrap-around end peninsulas; steel stud 'C acts like L' girder benchwork.

Rail height:  1067mm (3' 6") plus (a lot!) or minus (some hidden staging.)

Period and location:  September, 1964; Central Japan Alps.

Theme:  prototype JNR interchanging with freelance TTT.

Control:  analog DC, MZL system.

Scenery:  mountainous cedar forest, materials open to discussion.

Track:  flex and some hand-laid (including all specialwork) code 100, 83 (on concrete ties) and 70.

Minimum radius:  610mm (24")

Ruling grade:  25/1000 (2.5%)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[Medina1128]

What are the stats for your current layout? Or your planned one? Or whatever railroad your working on? Lets here it.

Layout at a glance

Name: Sierra Pacific & Eastern
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 11' x 11'
Height: 46"
Style: around the room w/ duckunder
Period: 1944-1956
Locale: California Sierra Foothills
Theme: Freelance --Southern Pacific meets Santa Fe
Scenery: glueshell with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83 and 100
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 26" upper, 22" lower
Backdrop: 1/4" masonite
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

Aggro, SOUNDS like a cool layout. You all should check out the pics!!

Name: Clinton/Golden Valley
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 27' x 18'
Height: 48"
Style: around the room folded dogbone                                                                                          Period: 1970-1976
Locale: West Central Missouri
Theme: Freelance --Missouri Pacific/Union Pacific meets Missouri Northern Arkansas
Scenery: insulating base under plaster cloth with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 2.5%
Minimum radius: 26" lower, 24" upper
Backdrop: will have 1/8 inch masonite
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

[steamage]

Layout at a glance

Name: Los Angeles & San Fernando Railroad
Scale: HO, 1:87
Size: 23' long x 9' wide in an attic area
Height: 54 inches
Style: Around the room shelf. Inside operation with lift up.
Staging: Have several tracks in Sun Valley used to hold short trains.
Minimum aisle width: 6'
Period: Late 50's to mid-60s
Locale: Burbank, CA
Theme: Mainline junction of SP Coast Line and Valley line join into Los Angeles. CTC tower operation. Local switching jobs.
Scenery: Cityscape of one and two story industries along right-of-way.
Control: DC with walk-around control.
Roadbed: 1/2" soundboard on 1/2" plywood
Track: Micro engineering Code 83 flextrack, Code 70 on spur tracks.
Turnouts: Walthers #8 mainline, #6 turnouts for industry.
Minimum radius: 40
Backdrop: Painted drywall
Fascia: 1/8" masonite
Completion: Layout is finished to the extent of track, scenery and structures, however, there will always be more detailing to do. Was featured in GMR 2006. Nowadays I want to concentrate on the operating aspect of the layout!

[Cannoli]

My layout is still well within the early stages of construction but here are the basics:

Name: Boston & Maine Dowe, NH Branch
Scale: HO
Size: overall, 14' x 12'
Height: 46"
Style: shelf with penninsula
Period: 1978-1981
Locale: Central New Hampshire
Theme: Protolance branchline
Scenery: Foam with plaster castings
Control: MRC Prodigy Express DCC
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics foam bed
Track: Atlas code 83 for visible track, Atlas Code 100 for staging
Turnouts: Visible track #6, #4 Staging
Minimum radius: 24"

[vsmith]

Layout at a glance

Name: Borracho Springs RR
Scale: 1:20.3 large scale
Location: Garage
Size: overall, 8 1/2 ' x 10' w/ one access aisle
Height: 36"
Style: traditional benchtop wedged under a storage loft.
Period: 1950-60
Locale: Somewhere in the monument valley area of the southwest
Theme: Small time narrow guage serving a mine and small town.
Scenery: not yet started, to be carved foam with some hardshell castings
Control: Straight DC with Aristo Craft Basi Train Engineer
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: LGB, AristCraft
Max grade: 0
Minimum radius: 48" R1 diameter
Backdrop: sky blue paint, may try to paint backdrop
Fascia: to be paint over 1x6 framing

Lets update this, since my layout got demoed to makeway for a new garage I have been sans layout, no date on restarting the replacement so I'm going to do this...

Plan:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Large%20Scale%20Pizza%20layout_BTS_2008.pdf

Name: Borracho Springs RR
Scale: 1:20.3 large scale
Location: Portable
Size: Overall, 36" x 36"... yes, thats correct.
Height: 36"
Style: Pizza style micro-layout w/ removable legs for transport or desktop display
Period: 1920-30
Locale: Somewhere in the monument valley area of the southwest
Theme: Small time (very small time) narrow guage serving a mine and small town.
Scenery: not yet started, to be carved blue-foam with resin castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: Traditional cork
Track: AristoCraft rail handlaid on basswood ties
Max grade: 0
Minimum radius: 34" diameter, yes, thats correct.
Backdrop: To be Walthers backdrop over painted blue backdrop
Fascia: Painted wood

 

[wm3798]

Name: Western Maryland Railway Western Lines
Scale: N
Size: overall, 16 x 16 (ultimately)
Height: 42" generally.  I'm building in an attic, so I have to deal with sloped ceilings...

Style: L-girder along the wall tables with a peninsula
Period: 1967-72
Locale: Cumberland, Maryland and west to Connellsville, PA and Elkins WV.

Theme: Reasonable Facsimile of prototype operations.

Scenery: Foam over plywood with Sculptamold finish.

Control: MRC Prodigy Advance DCC
Roadbed: Midwest Cork
Track: Atlas code 55 for visible track, Atlas Code 80 for staging
Turnouts: Visible track #7, #5 in yards and switching areas

Minimum radius: 15", 24" generally

 

The grey areas show the sections that are yet to be built.  The yellow line indicates the current boundaries of the layout, and the red lines indicate temporary trackage that allows the layout to be operated while work progresses (and funds accumulate!)

Lee 

[GAPPLEG]

Layout at a glance

Name: Southern Pacific  and Ficticious Texas Mining and Industrial RR.

Scale: 1:87

Size: overall, 12' x 16'

Height: 42"Style: around the room w/ duckunder

Period: absoulute present

Locale: El Paso to Lordsburg N.M.

Theme: Freelance --Southern Pacific and ficticious short line meeting in New Mexico

Scenery: Mostly plaster castings and desert sand 

Straight DC

Roadbed: W/S Foam

Track: Atlas code  100

Max grade: 4%

Minimum radius: 33 mainline , variable on shortline tracks

Backdrop: Finished walls painted and some walthers backdrops

Fascia: 1x4

[marknewton]

My layout at a glance...

Name: Toyama Chiho Tetsudo - Toyama District Railway. Railway
names in Japan are often abbreviated, so my line is also known simply as
the "Chitetsu". Like many electrified interurban railways, Chitetsu
started out as a number of independent local lines, and was consolidated
during WW2 in a government mandated merger. The company has an
interurban division, a town tramway, and a subsidiary railway. It also
connects with 762mm/30" gauge narrow gauge lines, and Japan's only
remaining trolleybus line.

Scale: 1:80 - Japanese HO, or "HOj". Uses 16.5mm gauge track to
represent 1067mm/42" gauge prototype track. 42" gauge is the de-facto
standard gauge in Japan. All of the JR system except the shinkansen
lines, and much of the private railway network, is built to this gauge.

Rollingstock: Some is RTR from Kato, Tomix, MicroAce and Endo,
some are kits from a variety of Japanese manufacturers, a couple are
kitbashed from US models, and some are scratchbuilt. One thing that
makes life easy when scratchbuilding is that Japanese carbuilders were
early adopters of all-welded construction - no rivets!

Size: overall, 10' x 14'. I was reluctant to use a lift-out
section on a layout which has overhead catenary, so I went with entry
via "nod-under". I have an office chair on castors, which I find makes
using the nod-under very easy - I just roll under the layout.

Height: 58" is the benchwork datum height. Just below my eye
level, and just at my wife's. The layout room also accomodates my
workbench and other modelling gear. With the layout at this height there
is ample room for everything, plus a sofa bed for guests. This height is
good if I want to operate standing, or I can sit on a tall bar stool I
acquired from my local bloodhouse when they redecorated and went upmarket.

Style: Around the walls, with centre peninsula. The centre
peninsula is portable, and can be taken to exhibitions, without
too much grief.

Period: 1975-1980. I chose this period as there was new*
rollingstock delivered to the railway then, and also the eventual
closure of the Shasui line. Goods/freight traffic was still a major part
of the railway's business at the time. In addition to loco-hauled
trains, there were box-motors, and passenger cars would haul one or two
freight cars for high-priority loads such as fish and cut flowers.

*New to the Chitetsu, at any rate. There is a huge market in secondhand
interurban and tram cars in Japan, and much of the Chitetsu fleet are
older style cars acquired from larger companies such as the Nagoya
Railway - "Meitetsu", and the Keifuku.

Season: Late autumn, early winter. This was the season when I
first visted Japan, and the leaden skies and snow flurries made a
lasting impression on me. Also, I though it would make a nice change
from all the layouts set in perpetual spring or summer, with their lurid
green grass, lush foliage and blue sky backdrops. In my part of
Australia winters are a rather mild affair, so I wanted to capture a
season quite unlike anything I'm used to.

Locale: Toyama Prefecture, Sea of Japan coast of northern central
Honshu. The countryside around Toyama is quite scenic, ranging from
coastal plains to the Tateyama Mountains.

Theme: Chitetsu Shasui Line, and Kaetsuno Railway connection. The
layout is built as a number of separate discrete scenes, or connected
dioramas if you like. The operating theme emphasises the work carried
out by the train crew at specific station stops or yards, rather than
getting the train "over the road" from one end of the line to the other.

Benchwork: "Qubelok" aluminium section and fasteners, topped with
9mm ply to provide solid base for catenary poles. Qubelok is an
Australian-made system of extruded aluminium sections and
injection-moulded plastic corners and other fasteners intended for the
shop-fitting trade.

I initially used this product for the portable layout. It's strong,
rigid, doesn't warp or expand with humidity, weighs bugger-all, is very
quick to assemble, and is cheaper than the equivalent in timber or
plywood. I was so happy with it's performance on the portable layout
that I used it on the permanent layout as well.

Scenery: Extruded foam, real dirt, natural ground cover, natural
and wire tree armatures, and scenic products from Noch, Heki, Auhagen,
Silflor, Busch, GPP, and several local producers. Some very nice pines
were made for me by the wife of a workmate, others by my wife.

Structures: Mainly scratchbuilt, from styrene, ABS,
acrylic/perspex sheet, timber, cardstock and sheet metal. All are models
of actual Japanese buildings, most from the area modelled.

Control: NCE Powerhouse Pro DCC. Decoders are a grab-bag of NCE,
Soundtraxx, ESU and Lenz. I have a few vehicles fitted with sound, I
like to have horns and bells on my electric cars and locos. To expand
the use of sound, I use cheap MP3 players to provide crossing bell and
platform departure songs and chimes.

Track:Again, a grab-bag of Peco, Micro-Engineering, Pilz, Tillig,
and some handlaid. Most is code 75. I was very disappointed with the
appearance of my handlaid track, and won't be doing any more.

Catenary: An ugly concoction of home-made, Viessmann,
Sommerfeldt, Bemo, Hornby and Electrotren parts. It is purely cosmetic,
and the least satisfactory feature of the whole layout. I may rip it all
out and start over...

Roadbed: Australian-made closed cell foam on extruded foam or WS
risers subroadbed. Ballast is fines collected from my local full-size
ballast quarry, or similar fines obtained from when I've worked ballast
trains from there, secured with matte medium.

Maximum grade: A short pinch of 1 in 15 in the street at
Yonejima-guchi.

Ruling grade: 1 in 75.

Minimum radius: 24" on open track, 15" on street track.

Valance and fascia: 3mm extruded polystyrene sheet.

Backdrop: 3mm extruded polystyrene sheet. I've taken many photos
of the sky in winter, then used them as a guide to paint the backdrop.
It features an overcast, cloudy day, the sort with no real shadows or
highlights.

Lighting: The portable section uses cool white fluorescent tubes
to be consistent with the modelled season and type of weather
represented. I tried using low-watt mini-fluoro bulbs elswhere, but they
are still too directional and cast unwanted shadows. Also the colour
temperature isn't consistent, so I'm replacing them with more fluoro tubes.

Cheers,

Mark.

[RRCanuck]

Name: to be determined (run mainly CN and CP)

Scale: 1:87 Size: 29’ long, half is 16’, half is 12’ wide, around the wall with duck-unders

Height: 42”

Frame: ¾” plywood on L-girder

Period: transition to present…campaign by changing scenic details. Will run steam when the mood strikes

Locale: Eastern, Southern Ontario

Theme: urban/heavy industry at one end / rural / uninhabited at the other

Scenery: plaster on screen

Control: 6 cabs, DC

Roadbed: cork

Track: Atlas code 100 flex, Shinohara or Peco switches powered by Tortoise

Grade: 2%

Radius: mainlines: 24” minimum, 32” typical

Backdrop: commercial photo back drop mounted on masonite

Fascia: 1 x 4”, painted

Cheers everyone.

[Crooked Creek]

Name: Crooked Creek
Scale: 1:87
Size: portable, 4'6" x 3'
Height: variable, depends on where I put it
Style: walk around
Period: 1880-1920
Locale: TBA
Theme: Freelance, Short Line
Scenery: foam, glueshell, plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: none, sparse ballast only
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 3%
Minimum radius: 10.5"
Backdrop: none
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

[Lakeshore 3rd Sub]

Name: 3rd Sub of CNW Lakeshore Division
Scale: HO, 1:87
Size: 19' long x 8' double deck
Height: Lower 42 inches, upper 60 inches 
Style: Around the room with elevator between levels.
Staging: 3 tracks on perimeter of lower level and 2 track on perimeter of upper level 
Minimum aisle width: 30"
Period: 1949-1954 - Fall 
Locale: Sheboygan to FonduLac, WI
Theme: Proto with license, operation of a secondary mailine with interchanges at mailine of CNW and MILW 

Scenery: Sculptamold over foam with city and country scenes in fall colors.
Control: Digitrax DCC 
Roadbed: Cork on 1/2" plywood on lower lever and cork on 2" foam on upper
Track: Atlas Code 100 flextrack on heavy mainlines and staging, Atlas Code 83 on secondary.
Turnouts: #6 mainline, #5 turnouts for industry.
Minimum radius: 20"

Grade: 0  all track is level with scenery rising and falling 

Backdrop: Painted back side of vinyl flooring
Fascia: painted 1/8" masonite