Latest progress on Chugman's Layout New Holiday Video Added 11/25/2018

  Looking real good !

I'll follow your progress here. Quite an expansive and we'll planed layout. I admire your precision on every aspect. Great work.

Lookin good!    Another layout I would like to go vist someday eh

Very cool, Art! You'll need a towboat and some  barges for the Mississippi scene!

Chugman posted:

I have been posting the progress on my layout on the "What Did You Do on Your Layout" thread, but I was asked to start a new thread this time.  My son and I have been working on getting my fascias installed.  We left the hardest one to last which was the one around a tunnel.  This tunnel you enter from the left hand side of my curved stone arch bridge.  It is about 12 feet long and has my double-track mainline running through it.  Today we finished putting the top on the tunnel.  Access to the tunnel will be via a lift-out section on the far right side and by the sides in the balance of the tunnel.  Here are several pictures of the almost finished top.

 

I can't thank my son, Jim, enough for all his hard work the last few days on the layout.  He has made some impossible jobs go smoothly and get done.  Building new control panels is the next major job for the layout and he has begun that process.

Art

Art- glad you are starting a new thread too. I have been following your progress on the other page. Keep up the good work. Everything looks great so far.

Bob

Outstanding ART, nice to work on it with your son!  Keep up the good work.

Hey Art, what to keep the Bar high for the rest of us! Wonderful work!

Art , absolutely beautiful work !!!!! You should keep updating this thread

Thanks, Alex

EXCELLENT

rattler21 posted:

Art, Reference photos one and two.  Is there enough room for articulated engines?  If you don't have one you can bet your bottom dollar some one will want to run one on your layout.   John in Lansing, ILL

John, I have a spot inside another long tunnel that does not show in these pictures that will not let me run some articulated engines.  The uprights that hold the upper deck under my towns of Ruthven and Spencer do not have enough clearance.  When a friend brought his new Lionel Visionline Big Boy over the only place we could run it was on the upper branchline.  I feel badly about that, but I have never had any plans to run large articulated engines and only own one small steam engine which hardly ever gets run.  

And I just learned last night that my 21" California Zephyr cars are hitting my new tunnel liner on my freight mainline so I will have to change that.  I haven't been running passenger trains on that line, but I want to be able to.  During future operating sessions I plan to reroute passenger traffic over this section of freight mainline to bypass freight switching at my grain elevator complex that is only accessible from the passenger mainline.

Thanks for all your encouraging comments.

Art

Wow, great layout!  Please keep updating.

Art: It's not only the articulated engines and passenger cars, that wouldn't clear that area.  These cars: 89' Auto Carrier Rack have been a bigger problem with clearance for me.  I now use them for my test car.  Not only for width but also for height.  

Great work, Art! Keep us up to date as you continue working on this.

Nice work Art. 89' autoracks are the best clearance testers these days 

Fabulous, Art......put up some building pics....your kit-bashing is inspirational! I'd love to see another picture of your parking garage....

Peter

Putnam Division posted:

Fabulous, Art......put up some building pics....your kit-bashing is inspirational! I'd love to see another picture of your parking garage....

Peter

 

Thanks, Peter.  I do love working with buildings.

Art

Chugman,

That is a lot lf layout. It will be a doozy!

Ron H

Chugman posted:

Putnam Division posted:

Fabulous, Art......put up some building pics....your kit-bashing is inspirational! I'd love to see another picture of your parking garage....

Peter

 

Thanks, Peter.  I do love working with buildings.

Art

Isn't this fantastic? What a great scene! I can't wait to see it completley detailed.

Peter

Still one of my all time favorites, an amazing layout. I am sure your layout will remain near the top of many folks' lists. Also nice to see someone else that likes diesels too! That is all I have here, no steam. Also glad you started a separate thread for updates. I will be following along closely. Good Luck!