OGR Run 300 - New Duckunder Terminal Rwy - additional photos - ONE MORE TIME!

Thank you for all the additional photographs, Will!  Everything is even more impressive!!  I am going to have to take some time and look them over more closely before attempting any specific comments!!!

Wow! Impressive layout. Enjoy the fall colors on the trees!

Thank you, Mark and George. Hope you will visit of you get to Raleigh. 

Great pics!

Peter

Will, Great job on the layout and the OGR article!!!!!!.  I love the industrial theme

Thanks, Peter and Steve!

Here below are the next batches of additional photos.

COLUMBUS SCENE

DUCKUNDER COAL MINE #2

PROSPERITY, WV

Now that is what I like. Really captured coal and then some. Fantastic. I'll have to nose around here when I get home instead if looking at these on my phone. Awesome.

Hi Will,

Great job on your Layout!  I especially like your Round House & Turntable!!!  It looks very familiar !!! LOL

Fredstrains

I see an OGR VIDEO or a YouTube video channel! Outstanding work!

Hey Will, what track was used to do the coal pit, and how did you do it?

There is certainly a lot to like here, Will.  I would like to comment that yours is the first layout I can recall having handrails along the fascia.  I think it is a great idea, now that I suffer from arthritic knees!!

I notice that you and George made the decision to not mold or carve rock faces, but left them with just a rough texture.  I like it!

I like the rock faces too Mark, has that freshly blasted look. Sort of reminds me of a few quarries over in my neck of the woods, that's how it looks.

Lots of great pics this time around, all showing up too!  Thank you for giving it that 'one more try'! 

Very NICE pics too!

The track over the ash pit is simply Ross with the ties removed. There is a piece of Evergreen H or I under the rail with short posts under that. The center rail does not have the support to make it less visible.

The hand rails serve two purposes. The first is protection for the layout from rubbing up against it. You can also lean on it or rest your arms on it while working or looking. They also help to pull up on when getting on a step stool.

Had to pause a moment for col (cat on lap). He hates the typing stylus and attacks it and my hand.

The handrails are mounted on brackets attached to the facia. There is a 3/4” block of wood behind so the screws have something to grab. There is no finish on the rails except what oil comes off hands. That makes a nice finish.

Thanks for your questions and interest. I will answer more as they appear.

George

Nice layout! Is the large coal mine a kit? 

You do wonderful work! Thanks for the great pics!

All of the mine structures are scratchbuilt. I took inspiration from photos in the archives of the N&W Historical Society. I look and start sketching out a design to fit the space. The sketches were saved, I may be able to post a couple. Generally the buildings have chipboard cores and are covered with wood or styrene sheet. Windows are mostly Tichy. The gantry, loading conveyors, etc are made from Evergreen strips and shapes.

About the rock work .......  Most of the places don’t have clearance for castings plus I hate doing castings and finishing them. There are still places where a long car or new loco will emerge with a white plaster streak on one side. As an aside we have found that the UP/Clinchfield Challengers have the most overhang, both front and back. They become the clearance gauge.

Again, thanks for the great comments. Keep the questions coming.

George

Awesome layout Will it inspires all of us who are in the construction phase of our own layout. Really love all the coal operations you have. Reminds me of the great days of railroading when coal was king.

Wonderful layout.  I had the chance to visit Will in NC a few years back.  The layout is pretty ingenious as it creates individual scenes.  

Here are a few videos from that visit!