My Layout

Hey Chris , I'm going to continue watching your progress on this great looking layout.

I want to see where Grandfather's amazing brick fence is going to go.  What a beautiful piece of art it is. 😉

Hey Joe! The fence will be around the front soon. A prize item so it goes up last! Got the trolley up and running today! This one is about 20 years and pretty worn out but was good for testing, picking up my Scranton Transit trolly soon!

Really good to hear about THE  FENCE going to be included.

You have been making great progress on this layout and it looks like you are doing a great job in getting a solid base  construction .    A lot of different action going on there. 🤓

Great progress Chris. I'd love to see it some time.

any time!  gimme a call! you may like the museum better than the layout!

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum, you've come to the right place.  Great video and your new layout looks to be really awesome.  I've been into trains for as long as I can remember and it started when I was a baby.  I also happen to love airplanes too, had my private pilots license but stopped flying when the gas went nuts  and I couldn't afford to fly but every once in a while.  I love your little bi-plane, I'll bet its a blast to fly.  Thanks for sharing your great video and all of your progress on your new layout.

The loop to point operation of that trolley, combined with going through the tunnel is a really nice setup - I may have to remember that for my own once one day!

thanks guys, for some reason i just noticed these responses. J.Motts, glad to hear you are enjoying my layout and nice to hear from a fellow Pilot. here ya go, ill take you for a little ride...... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...amp;feature=youtu.be

JHZ, yea the trolly operation is fun.  we always had one when i was little, this is our old one. my mom gave it to me for testing. it has the slide plate on the bottom instead of rollers and cries a little going over the switch if its going too slow. its also missing the traction tire so it bobbles around a bit. I also noticed the bumper wasnt fastened down yet in the video and it was making the trolley bounce up in the air hahaha. it doesnt do that any more. when i get a chance to pick up the scranton transit trolley from the gift shop at the electric city trolley museum that one should run better as it has 2 pick up rollers. 

Great layout and videos. I really enjoyed it all. Thanks for sharing it.  The youtube video from the cockpit is AWESOME!

Great progress.  Nice space you have, and you've put it to good use.

Including your dogs in the video reminded me of this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

Plugging along on scenery. Here’s some progress from the weekend. Should have the middle almost wrapped up this week. Then on to the big mountain and figure out what I want to do to the coal breaker and yard area there, as well as that mountain. Also, scooped up another Conrail nw2 for the coal train. They look great mu-ed together like they did here in anthracite country! They used multiple switcher units cause the track was so poor, or so I’ve been told. Anyways here’s some pics......

chris

That was a great story and a great video. Love the family history.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!!

Chris,

Loved the video.  I flew with a friend in his Piper Cherokee quite a few times out of Forty Fort and once visited Sky Haven (touch and go). We flew  over the length of Susquehanna a number of times. My favorite route was heading west near Berwick and flying along the mountain ranges toward State College. The Finger Lakes are cool too. I'm not licensed but took the yoke many times once in the air and clear of approaches of any air strips.  He has since retired, sold the plane and moved out west. Most of the time we left right after church so I was still in my collar. My friend got a lot of ribbing from other pilots about bringing his priest along when we stopped somewhere for a Hundred Dollar Hamburger. I sure miss those Sunday afternoons.   

I posted my 4x8 home layout here under the 48Club.  Its small, but does the job until our club can  open up again.

Earl   

Plugging along on scenery. Cows are out......

Plugging along. Got the roads in and the center all cleaned up. Just gotta get some trees and then the cover is ready to go down for the hole in the middle. As mentioned in the “buy anything cool lately” thread, I got my Scranton Transit trolley and a MTH SW1 that I’m going to have repainted into PNER 601. Now it’s running on the inner loop for a bit. Anyways, enjoy......

Looking good Chris.

@C_Murley posted:

Plugging along on scenery. Here’s some progress from the weekend. Should have the middle almost wrapped up this week. Then on to the big mountain and figure out what I want to do to the coal breaker and yard area there, as well as that mountain. Also, scooped up another Conrail nw2 for the coal train. They look great mu-ed together like they did here in anthracite country! They used multiple switcher units cause the track was so poor, or so I’ve been told. Anyways here’s some pics......

chris

Magic! I want a tunnel and a side grade like this when I build my permanent layout. I want a crane setting something near the topside of the tunnel too. I’ll post a real life photo in May to better explain this last comment. Thank you for sharing all of this fun!

Looks better everytime Chris.

Really nice size to get all this action going on and still have a great amount of room for open space scenery. 

The kind of stuff my dreams are made of.

PS.  can't wait to see that GREAT BRICK WALL on that layout. 😉

Made some progress on the big mountain. Once this locks up, trees..... The lady wanted a cabin on a snow capped mountain. She gets what she wants......