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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 0:53:47 GMT
Joe, the addition of passengers looks great. Beautiful units.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2019 0:57:32 GMT
As my wife can and will attest to, I spend the last couple of weeks ignoring many of my chores to work on a new upper level and raise loop. I was thinking about expanding out in another part of the basement, but after assessing how much free time I have, the looming college costs for the next 8+ years, I decided to instead enhance the current 8x5 layout to extend the fun of what I currently have. I got approving noises from the family when I showed them finished product to them. The oldest teen said "wicked" (means good in New England), the youngest helped make a park scene and the wife said WOW. The result is in the following video. Details are still rough, but it is a starting point for the next era of fun on the current layout. I love lots of moving trains and this design does not disappoint. Hope you like it! arypinski.smugmug.com/Choochoo/i-Qwv3p8X/ALay of the Land Top Level: This will be the village (on the right) and military base (on the left). This loosely mimics the quaint New England town that we live in. Next door to our town is a military training base in an area called Devens. My version of the town has a trolley (an MTH Bump-and-Go) that takes passengers from one end to the other. It also includes a little park that my youngest daughter made for the layout. It is decked out in some Christmas lights. Raised loop: This is currently running my little NH Switcher and some Lionel cars and one livestock (in blue) car that I 3D-Printed. Lower Level: The lower level includes a train station (on the left), a train Museum (on the right), a road (at the back) and, of course, two loops between which are a couple of turn out switches (which are at the back and can't be seen in the video) in case a train needs to move from one to the other. The inner loop also has a cross-over so I can turn trains around. Outer loop is running Williams F3-AA B&M a pulling set of Lionel Passenger Cars. Inner Loop is running Lionel RS3 B&M pulling some Lionel and Menards Boxcars. Adam, That is a pretty cool little layout. The elevations are terrific. Great little video and love the fast moving trains. My layout is covered in the same green velvet. As time has gone on, it has been filled in with scenery materials but it served me well and we are keeping that Lionel Toy Train tradition of a green layout surface. I LiIKE what you are doing!!!!
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Post by Country Joe on Nov 13, 2019 0:59:56 GMT
Thanks Wood. It was pretty easy to do and makes a big difference.
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Post by laz57 on Nov 14, 2019 21:15:33 GMT
Today for the first time since the summer I cleaned all the track. Took a good two hours, but now ready for the train season. Boy was it dirty.
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Post by ptc on Nov 14, 2019 21:21:03 GMT
Just picked up another Centerline track cleaning car, Laz, so your track cleaning efforts today will be reapeated in the North Country.
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Post by laz57 on Nov 14, 2019 22:08:07 GMT
Good going BRIAN. I need to get one of those. I used elbow grease and denatured alcohol. Boy were the rags dirty. Shines nice now.
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Post by chipset35 on Nov 16, 2019 20:34:14 GMT
Contrary to my other post, I placed the first of the Harlem Cut walls on the long length of the room and not the width. I will post photos asap.
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Post by ptc on Nov 16, 2019 22:42:40 GMT
Ballast work today on the shelf that serves the CIC main line tracks under the PE layout.
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Post by chipset35 on Nov 17, 2019 14:28:39 GMT
Today the locomotives were pulled off the layout and all of the smoke switches were turned on. For years, I have not used smoke because one of my grandchildren is allergic to the smoke. Due to my new Vision Line Genset Switcher I decided it was time to run with smoke. When Logan comes over I will simply push the 9 button on the Legacy handheld and turn the smoke off. The picture below does not show the smoke very well but I think you can see the cloud in the background. Holy Smokes! What a layout!
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Post by ptc on Nov 17, 2019 14:33:40 GMT
Vince, you really miss the smoke a lot when not in use. Nice that you found a solution.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 0:13:54 GMT
All kinds of neat stuff going with lots of progress by many. Adam we have been watching your work. Looks as if you have found a good solution to a larger space. If you can’t get wider, go up. Brian the layout is looking great. Ballast, clean track, and hungry elves (no freight cars to bring in food), have you almost ready for Christmas. All you need is snow in the great north country. Vince, Logan should be happy when he comes over. Hope that he is there soon. We have made progress this week (okay, we have fished a lot too with guests). We have installed 18 relays to handle main line turnouts and have connected three turnouts to six of them. Paula and I ran trains and tested things late this afternoon and were pleased that it all worked. There are 16-17 main line turnouts and each requires two relays so this requires some time. But the basic setup is done and it will be a lot faster to wire the rest up following what we have already done. It was a neat experience to control track power and turnouts with the remote along with the train. This can get complicated fast so we are doing a lot of labeling and keeping diagrams in the computer. Pictured are some of the relay boards and the “test” engine going thru a Ross turnout. We are really pleased with the switch lanterns; once installed, they hold up well. Attachments:
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Post by ptc on Nov 18, 2019 15:19:31 GMT
Bill, your articulated engine looks great on the curve.
"hungry elves (no freight cars to bring in food)"
We get that question often, but Santa has taken care of this for the entire North Pole population. The North Pole is pretty much self sufficient and whatever special food items that are needed fit into the Polar Express Baggage Car. Thanks for thinking about the elves. There are a lot of them to feed at just around 1,000, not including Santa and Mrs. Claus.
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Post by laz57 on Nov 18, 2019 15:31:56 GMT
Great work on the ballast GUYZ. I got start that next?
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Post by twincities on Nov 18, 2019 21:50:29 GMT
well I kept having electric contact issues for led strip lights for the passenger station tracks so I got two small 2" finish nails pounded them into wood above copper tape and sat the passenger station platform on top of them and walla I now have positive contact who says you cant drive a nail home to make a point of contact! laughing loudly on that one.
tammie is busy adding more people to that tv backdrop area and found a better steam engine for the log loader track it blends in gauge wise much better.
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Post by ptc on Nov 18, 2019 22:03:36 GMT
I guess that you "nailed it".
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