Layout Expansion in progress 9-24-23 new factory added

Rich,  This helps a lot!  Thank you so much for all the information and the tips.  This has been what the wife and I have been looking for for our elevated section to our layout.  Looks like it's pretty easy to do.   Thanks again for your responce and help.

 

Ralph & Laura

Hello All, Happy new year!

 

It has been a while since I posted about the layout.  Much of my free time has been spent on the Korber Models re-launch.  However I have taken a bit of time over the holidays to work on the layout.  A combination of seeing some of the great work that Bill Bramlage has been doing on his layout here in town, and a great post I saw by Gustavflyer on stone trestle supports got me motivated to focus on the harbor area.

 

The goal was to cover the foam supports for the tack with some sort of wall, complete the sea walls in the harbor, and get some ground cover on.

 

I also started the basic structure for the freight house that will occupy one side of the harbor.  This will ultimately be a corrugated tin building, not sure of the roof however, either tin, or tar paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As always open for comments and suggestions.

Awesome!!! I love stone walls! it look SO real!!!

Hi Rich Happy New year

 

As soon as I saw your thread I rushed to take a look. I must say WOW WOW WOW

I love your layout and the superb craftsmanship that you're doing. Simply amazing

Please keep the progress photo's coming.

 

Thanks, Alex

Hi Rich, Happy New Year!! Your layout details are AWESOME. Keep up the great work.

Happy New Year Rich! Looking Great!

Rich...I really like your harbor.  It seems that you and I have been working on the same kind of projects!!  I had posted some harbor pics just a few days back.  I like the stonework....it looks like some of the nice stone kitchen and bath tiles from HD or Lowes...???

 

Thanks,

Alan

Very nice work!  The entire scene is really a work of art, I love the stone work as well...great color and texture.

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

 

The stone work uses a 12x12 mosaic tile from Lowes.  It was covered in a post earlier by others that got me focused on this area.  I had been wondering what to use, and didn't really want to use the foam wall pieces this close to the front of the layout.

 

I thought it was a bit pricey at about $14 for a 12x12 piece until I looked at the foam walls for $12.50 for a 12.5x5 or about double the cost of real stone.

Fabulous, Rich!!!!!

Looking forward to seeing you and you wife again in York.

Peter

Looking great!!!

Very nice!

Rich - when you used the double backed tape to hand your background did you just use it on the top of the mural and let it hang down or did you place the tape in other places?

Paul

Fantastic Rich,

 

that is really coming together nice!

Thanks for the nice comments guys. Paul, I used two rows of carpet tape on the top. I used some on the exposed side that was an outside corner-end of the wall. The rest hangs free and has worked out really well.

so that stone on the front face of the picture above is from lowes??  wow.  I have a wall im working on and that is a great idea.  you have great skill.  I just spent time looking at all the pics of this.  it must be amazing to stand back and take it all in.  great stuff

Thanks Chris Yes tiles from lowes I read the idea here on the forum

Rich,

I stumbled upon this post last night and all I can say is, wow.  Such a wonderful job.  Just getting back into this, I can tell you that your layout gives me a lot of motivation, but at the same time says "you have a long way to go Mike."  Anyway, it looks great!! 

I missed this the first time around (too busy stuffing myself with New Year's dinner I suppose).  It looks fabulous, Rich!  I love the stone work!

Hi Guys,

 

With some of the Korber stuff and a few track changes, I had not had a chance to get back to the layout structures in a while.

 

I made some good progress on my freight warehouse this weekend.

 

This is a scratch built structure to look like a "tin" structure.

 

 

 

As always comments and suggestions welcome!

Hey, Rich!

 

That looks great! By opening the pictures in a new window and maximizing the window and then the picture, I was able to plainly see the detail of the 'tin' panels. What did you use for these? And your weathering makes them even better, of course.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Alex

Hi Rich,

 

  That looks fabulous, very nicely done !!!!!!!!!!! the layout looks awesome too

 

 

Thanks, Alex

 

 

Thanks Guys,

 

Alex I used sheets of JT corrugated material (Plastic).  I cut these to scale 4x8 ft size (1x2") and glued them to the foam-core structure.  So yes there are lots of small parts.  

 

I then painted it with a flat grey primer, them weathered with some powders for rust, over sprayed a mist of flat black, and hit it with dulcote.

 

Again thanks for the comments.

Rich,

 

Awesome work! That is a great structure. I also see you paid Lowe's a visit (brick wall)

 

Cesar

Great looking layout Rich! The starkness of your freight warehouse is fantastic. Please keep posting pictures as you procede with your layout.

Finally got back over here to see your progress and boy does that warehouse look great.  You sure cut out a lot of 4 by 8 pieces!!  I am enjoying this thread....please keep the updates coming...

 

Alan

Finally getting back to my engine service area.  Since before we purchased Korber, I really wanted to ad the Diesel Shed to the layout.  Well now I have, and started to rework the instructions, like many of the kits.

 

Here are some shots.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice service facility Rich! Looking good.

Rich, the service area is coming along nicely. Looks great 

 

Andy

Rich,

You have done an outstanding job with your layout.  The Diesel Shed looks great!  

 

Angelo

Looks great, Rich!

Very nicely done!!

Very nice servicing facility.

 

Chris

Rich, love the progress!!! Thanks for keeping us posted

 

Bruce

Very nice Rich!!

 

Alan

We, I have been a bit slow in progress on the home layout (too much Korber work I guess)

 

I decided to kit bash a Korber 315 Grain Silo to add to the layout.  I added a double set of silos and widened the main structures.  I also make a new shed roof to make it wider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have had this Yard office sitting on the shelf for years, and decided this was a good are to install it after some weathering.  I intend to add some me arround the fire.

 

 

 

This small areas between the edge of the layout and the mainline on an elevation was puzzling to me what to do, and then I decided to have a smalls stretch of road with some company houses on it.  I painted and weathered these.  I have some more work to do, but ok for now.

 

 

I have been planing on adding more of the stacked stone wall to the elevated area at the back of the layout, and finally got to that along with some of these other items.  I still have to weather, but now this part is complete.

 

 

I stopped by Dixie Union Station yesterday while out running some errands, and saw this sw1 NYC that I have been looking for something like this to runaround my harbor area  I "jumped of the shelf" at me, and I had to buy it.

 

As always comments and suggestions welcome.

Hi Rich,

 

Everything looks great, very well done!!!!

 

Thanks,

Alex

Rich,

"Bit slow..."? Looks fine by me, and very well done!

 

I have the yard office too, and added hobos around it. I did not have a good spot next to a track that was close to the edge of the layout, so I had to add a ladder as the make-believe link between the converted caboose and the track. Actually, the idea was Rebecca's (my 15-year old neighbor), and she also added the guy at the top of the ladder for better effect.

 

Thanks for posting!

 

Alex

 

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Rich looking very nice. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

gotta work to play Rich !

 

Really coming along nicely. Great job on the silos and the company homes.