After working all year we finally got to run trains last night
It was a tune up for the SP people that will be visiting Thursday night
The scenery from where Art is sitting down to where it ends was all done
in the last year along with some of the buildings at Thurmond
Andrew sitting at the control pannel at Thurmond
Going around the layout this is Hawks Nest on the inside of the loop is a reversing loop
The upper level main lines
Lower level hidden staging
Helix with a reversing loop
Hidden incline for the mainlines
You can see more pictures of Art’s layout at
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2098660329
After A year it must have felt pretty good finaly make a complete circuit with a running train. Very impressive layout and craftmanship so far. Keep up the good work. Just think, now comes the hard part…Detail!
Glenn
TA462
October 8, 2007, 9:17am
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Looks great so far. I bet you run trains more then you build scenery now, lol.
Terry,
Looks like great fun. Congrats on the accomplishment.
What is the size of the room? How many of you have been working on the layout? Did you use a particular software to design it?
Sue
BRAKIE
October 8, 2007, 9:55am
5
Great looking layout so far!..Thanks for sharing.[tup]
Sue thanks !
The room is 20x30
With over 200 ft of hand laid code 83 rail and turnouts
THe branch lines are code 70
Art used the CAD system at his work place for the drawings “shhh”
He and Andrew have done most of the work
Bench work construction started in 1999
I just help out once in a while planting trees
Looks great!..so when do you invite me over to run the trains?..chuck in Crosby, TX…
UP2CSX
October 8, 2007, 11:47am
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Holy cow! I can just imagine how much fun it must have been landscaping that mountainside. [:)] At least he’ll have some thing to keep him busy for the next twenty years or so. Pretty darned impressive.
Chuck
Art’s layout is on the tour same day as mine
Nov 18th
Please come over and indroduce your self
After seeing his you won’t want to see mine
But your always welcome to run trains at my place !
Actually Dave after we run on Thursday we’ll probably tear out the hidden staging
part to install a ladder track.
That is of course if the slow container ship from China ever gets here with it’s load of Shinohara
turnouts
