layout pics, a bit different view...

thanks jerry,  i appreciate the comments!  it will be fun to start over. this new layout will be my first in std O with DCC.  i learned quite a bit about DCC with the current layout i just took down.  thanks again for the support!

and i just used some wood from the "keep" pile to reinforce some of the yard tables that are sold.  

thanks matt, i may have to try that next time. i never thought of of it!

well everything is down.  only the 16' yard table up but it is unscrewed from the wall and ready for the new owner.  all in all it took about 8 hours to dismantle.   8 years to build, 8 hours to demo.  kind weird how that worked out.  now on to cleaning up the room, fixing some minor dry wall issues, painting and finally cleaning the carpet. (and finding a place for all the stuff that was UNDER the layout!) 

I'd post photos but can't seem to get them from my files to here> No problem posting to Es or face book. Here, a fine science.

Phill

thinking about something like this, loosely based.  i would use millhouse river studio turntable and transfer table.  car shop would be double the size in length. roundhouse would be 3 stall.

Did you talk about your new location yet

size, room, etc

i learned a lot from this thread, thank you and good luck

j

j,  since i am going to try out the modular mainne layout system i am going to build this one in sections.  first section will be 6' x 23'.  loosely based on the mrr graphic in an above post.  the room is 23 x 40' overall. (it is actually bigger but i like having a lounge area, and workshop area that is not under or near the layout.)  so that is what i have to work with.  glad this post is of value!  thx for the feedback.  

here is the turntable section of the yard,ready to go to a new home.  the other table  going is 30" or so x 16'.

hi all,

well 90% of the previous roster of engines, rolling stock and buildings have sold.  here are a couple pics of the millhouse river turntable and transfer table. they were delivered earlier this month.  room is painted and carpet cleaning about to start. 

Looks good Zak. Thanks for the update.

Beautiful...you gotta love Al's products.

There is a thread running about changing from an around-the-wall layout to the "usual"

loop layout.  In shows there are displayed these modular layouts, which, obviously,

are designed to be set up, taken down, and transported.  IMO, that looks like the

practical design if you ever think the layout will have to be moved, taken down, or

even worked on (where you could yank one section out of it).  I think building this

type of point-to-point layout is as realistic as running the trains, out to today's

end of line where the Chinese are putting in trestle piles , just like real railroads

were built.  Start at one end and lay track toward the other.  This type gives more access, and is more easily divisible for takedown, and more easily built for that eventuality.  Of course, there are wider areas that are not as accessible, such as yards, and the terminals with their wyes, yards, and turntables.  The negative:  you can't just set it all up and watch the trains run.

I agree Colorado Hirailer,

i had an HO 4x8 in our basement as a teenager.  As a young married adult, I started building a larger N scale layout, but had to tear it down when we moved.  I then built modular, and moved it twice, before I discarded it when we moved again and I was thinking of going back to HO.  I moved HO modules twice.  In the case of the last HO the ultimate plan was to have provision for continuous running, but I never got that far.  I ran point to point.  Now I have a 'temporary' 4x8 O gauge hirail, but anticipate building another modular once our last daughter moves out and I can claim a full 12x12 room.  It will be around the walls modular, in case we move in retirement.  That way I can reuse some or all the modules.  I like continuous running, but at the slow pace I build, I have spent most of my years running point to point.  I get my dose of continuous running at shows where the Pittsburgh Independent Hirailers or the Fort Pitt HiRailers set up their marvelous modular layouts and run the big engines!!

hi all,

i just started on a new website.  it is a work in progress but i will be posting pics and updates there as well.

http://www.michaelluczak.com/index.html

hope everyone has a great spring and summer modeling season!

mike

Mike,

Very nice Web site.  I see you make your drawings on paper.  How novel.  Just kidding, I'm an old paper and pencil draftsman and never got the hang of CAD.

I really like you locomotive roster!

thanks mark!  i actually let my dad draw up all my layouts.  he has done it a dozen times over the years for myself and various people. he enjoys it and i do not have to try and remember all my CAD, or purchase a layout drawing package. more pics coming of the room (its finally repainted and carpet cleaned) as well as motive power pics.  i am working on the well hole flat car now and going to start putting DCC in my engines. 

thanks again for the comments and taking the time to view.

mike

I posted some renderings of the benchwork Mianne Custom Benchwork provides within a quote.  Great people to work with.  Posted within the "Construction of GNPRR" bullet in the left hand menu of the webpage.

Mianne is a great choice, I'm sold on it (as I said earlier in the thread). And, if you ever decide to do another tear down and rebuild, all you have to do is re-configure the bench work. Mianne will help you do it too, just as they have with this layout. It also goes together very fast so you can get right to track laying. Good luck with it if you go that route.

Mike,

Great website and presentation. I will follow your progress closely as I'm planning on using the same benchwork and want to see how you like it as work progresses. One question. Where did you get that wonderful prime mover on the 62ft wellhole flat? Is that a kit or ??

Butch