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Originally Posted by Matt Makens:

Elliot, i think we should share that information about the loco repair with the forum. Maybe some photos next time if fix a loco. Im sure you are not the only person that has that issue. I was fun to finally run trains after a year

Matt,

Many thanks for your work with Elliot!  You deserve a round of applause.  

Photos on loco repair would be useful!

Thank you

I agree Matt. The camera was right there on the workbench. The thought went through my mind... then kept right on going out the other side.

 

Jon, when Matt figures out his schedule, I'll give you a call, so the three musketeers (or is it stooges?) can ride again. If I had known it was that easy to make and post videos, I'd have done more a long time ago.

 

Patrick, wherefore art thou? If you don't get better soon, I may forget how to lay track.

well my homemade tunnel portals I thought I did such a good job on with the new engines I have been picking up well the overhang hits them. so off they came. I have been planning a yard of some sort under the middle level of the layout so with the clearance issues and the yard needing done and my switches came in reconstruction begain last night with removing all the track from the middle level. which got me thinking 2 simple loops in this 6 x10 area I can do better than that. also needed to fix where I cut the layout in half to move it a few months ago it supported my weight but just so that needed addressed so out came the saw I removed all plywood on the middle level. removed all the bracing. built bracing for the yard and added plywood to it. tomorrow I will add the bracing to the middle level again and put down new plywood. they layout the new track plan up there. here are photos of my labors. it's a mess up there now. also adding in 2 popups to access the middle level.

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Last edited by Jhainer
Originally Posted by Al Galli:

I started the bench work on my second layout.  The first layout which is a prewar toy train layout is at the right of the stairs.  The second layout will be hi-rail  At this point it is a most wonderful layout because it is all in my head.  Reality might be quite different. I have been accumulating Gargraves track this week and next I need to gather some Ross switches.

new layout 6:14

 

   Just curious as to your room dimensions ? My train room looks almost identical to yours with the stairs being in the same location and all.

 

 Can't wait to see your progress as you go along,maybe stealing a few ideas from you !

Originally Posted by Jhainer:

well my homemade tunnel portals I thought I did such a good job on with the new engines I have been picking up well the overhang hits them. so off they came. I have been planning a yard of some sort under the middle level of the layout so with the clearance issues and the yard needing done and my switches came in reconstruction begain last night with removing all the track from the middle level. which got me thinking 2 simple loops in this 6 x10 area I can do better than that. also needed to fix where I cut the layout in half to move it a few months ago it supported my weight but just so that needed addressed so out came the saw I removed all plywood on the middle level. removed all the bracing. built bracing for the yard and added plywood to it. tomorrow I will add the bracing to the middle level again and put down new plywood. they layout the new track plan up there. here are photos of my labors. it's a mess up there now. also adding in 2 popups to access the middle level.

 

Now is the time to make these kind of changes.  I'm sure you will never regret it.  You have been doing a great job, so I'm sure it won't be long you will have trains running on that level again!

Originally Posted by Big_Boy_4005:
Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:

Looking good, Elliot!  I'm sure you have stated it before, but what is the diameter of the helix?  It looks quite large.

The big helix in the first video is 10' outside diameter. The small one in the second video is 8' outside diameter. Double tracks are 4" centers.

Thank you Elliot.  Those are the largest helixes I have seen.  The large one would almost take up my daughter's room that I plan to use for my layout when she moves out.  Your long equipment should negotiate them nicely, and you shouldn't have problems.  Do you plan to cover them with scenery, view blocks, or leave them open for easy access?  I'm full of questions, aren't I.

Originally Posted by mackb4:
Originally Posted by Al Galli:

I started the bench work on my second layout.  The first layout which is a prewar toy train layout is at the right of the stairs.  The second layout will be hi-rail  At this point it is a most wonderful layout because it is all in my head.  Reality might be quite different. I have been accumulating Gargraves track this week and next I need to gather some Ross switches.

new layout 6:14

 

   Just curious as to your room dimensions ? My train room looks almost identical to yours with the stairs being in the same location and all.

 

 Can't wait to see your progress as you go along,maybe stealing a few ideas from you !

Mack  The side of the room for this layout is 13 x 36 at its widest.  The layout will be 33 x 11.  That leaves me 2' to get to the furnace and the rest of the basement.  I will also have a 3' removable section at the door in the event I need to replace the furnace or the hot water heater

Originally Posted by Nicks Trains:

Will This thread ever die?

 

Not as long as somebody did something on their layout today!

 

 

I cleaned track, Set up a long freight on loop 1, and put a Williams passenger set on loop 2.  Getting ready for a family visit from the west coast - including a 3-year old nephew I haven't met yet!

 

 

Hello everyone. I finally had to like this post I don't think this post will ever die. this posting keeps me involved.  So here I go with a gripe about myself.   Well with it being summer out side I have not had the opertunity  to do much with the layout. It seems like there are projects all around this house. and with the loss of my right leg 3 years ago it seems to take me forever to do things. I have a few things that I'll have to get my sons help with. Then I'll have all the Bench work in place. Then I have all of the wire to run. and complete laying the track.  Now why do all the outside projects keep adding to the list of things to do?

I ordered in some wood siding and caboose roofing...and, while previously rooting

through junk boxes, found a small gas electric somebody had freelanced...looks like

it was in On3 or On30 or maybe S.  It was powered by a DC motor, but there was just

one truck frame hanging on by a wire.  I have emptied the motor compartment and am checking to see if it looks like it will accept 3 rail power.  If so, I will clean it up and repaint and letter it, if I get it running.  (it is painted with some shiny maroon paint)

OK, after getting some of Gunrunner's advice trying to figure out camera wiring I got back to the installation of the rest of Glenn Snyder shelves I received the other day.

 

Done, 28-  6' sections 168 feet with about 10 cuts for proper spacing. Finally get stuff out from under the bench and get ready for some very serious accessory wiring. Now back to rebuild mode.

Larry

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I had found this scratchbuilt gas electric in a junkbox while hunting parts for the

Mullet River kitbuilt caboose, and I removed what looks like an open frame HO

motor and wider guage drive train with the plan to finally convert it to three rail, and redo the body and paint.  While rooting through boxes I came up with other strays

picked up in shows: a number of scratchbuilt or kitbuilt side door and drover cabooses,

some the worst for wear, and all in need of paint and three rail trucks and couplers.

A couple appear to be good models of specific prototypes, which I will repaint and

reletter, as both paint and lettering appear beat up from use and handling.

Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:
Originally Posted by sp2207:

Thank You Mark. I know I am not as speedy as most of the forum  guys are but I have not given up on the layout. and I know it will still take time. Scot

Scot, I'm not that speedy either.  I do what I can, when I can, and have fun while doing it.

Mark and Scot, I never even think about speed or time spent because I am having such a good time of it. The creative adventure is so refreshing. Of course, I understand the urge and need to get it all accomplished, Scot, but I will predict that when it is "done," you will miss the creative process and the investment of your imagination. You may even be "sorry" it's done and find yourself looking for the next adventure with your layout - you may even find yourself thinking of changes that could be made further. My layout has been "done" a half dozen times and I still find myself considering "adjustments" here-n-there. Hhmmmmm, I think I'm going to head downstairs to the trainroom for a little look-around...

FrankM

FrankM   It all seems great when I do work on the layout. It just seems like I have been working on it for a long time. With me saying that its been 15 years ago that I got my 1st O gauge train. so with that then I got really sick and went through a loss of a leg. Then I had a kidney transplant. Then I had a 3 way bypass done.  then 2 years after that I had a valve replaced in my heart.  and hear we are now just 6 months past the last surgery.  I am feeling great and I just want to get some trains running. I was also on dialysis  for over 6 years.  So I hope you all know why it is important to me. And I am only 46 years old.  And the reason I went through all of this is because I have had diabetes for over 36 years.  And may I say with all the work around the house with cutting the grass and doing improvements it just dosen't seem to be enough time in the day to complete all of it.   Well sorry for the rant.    Scot

Scot,
Don't worry about the rant.  I knew you had been through some but not all those problems.  My father-in-law had a similar story with diabetes.  I'm glad you are feeling well and ae able again.  Now you sound like me, too many chores.  If you are like me, you are anxious to get trains running, then the buildings and scenery can go on until the cows come home.
Originally Posted by sp2207:

FrankM   It all seems great when ... it just dosen't seem to be enough time in the day to complete all of it.   Well sorry for the rant.    Scot

That certainly was no "rant." You sound like a strong and courageous man, Scot. I can see why you feel it is high-time for some play to come to fruition, too.

FrankM

Digging items out from the bench work finding some things I forgot I even had.

 

Placing some in this new area where the real train workers will be....someday.

 

I have more to add and probably will move these accessories  around a dozen times before I'm finished with the basic idea.

 

3rd picture same thing. Someday it's suppose to be a coal mine area.

Still having fun.

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Some one above mentions finding stuff they forgot they had...did that with the caboose kit I finished....finding a stash of Weaver couplers and several sets of

three rail caboose trucks and archbar trucks.  I also found six or eight builtup junkbox cabooses picked up in shows over the years, all side door or combine.  Maybe two are the Train Craft side doors, but one is certainly a kit I've never seen, with metal details like center steps, a side door that makes me wonder if it is the elusive kit from the 1940 Vandemboom catalog.  Really a solid, hefty caboose, with lotsa details, but just one grade above painted with a brush in bright red, chipped and dirty over the years.  Going to restore it to its prototype, which I am digging through books for a photo for.  It has platforms on the ends but no overhead "porch roofs".  Got in an order of milled wood caboose roof and scribed siding, for one I was going to start, but it looks like I

have been diverted for a while.

Hello every one.  Well last knight I completed laying out all of my track well 98% of it. And This evening A ran the 1st groups of wire. Well I have 33 turn outs on this layout so it will be some time before I get it all ran.  1 thing I do need to do is I need to do a bit of cleaning. So tomorrow 1st thing I  will do is grab a broom and clean. clean.  clean.    Scot

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