So, just wondering, but how many Plywood Centrals, Pink Praries, and Blue Desert Railroads are out there?
I have a Blue Desert RR, how about you?
(Pic’s welcome!)
Hi,PC!
Some of both for me!
Terry
I’m in the same boat as Terry.
Right now I’m about half done with scenery. All the track and electrical are in as well as most of the buildings.
Tom
The Plywood Central has been giving way to the Sceniced Railway.
Something to do with climate change. Namely, it’s too cold to go outside.
Paul
10% scenery, 90% wasteland. I’ll get those numbers switched some day![:P]
I’d have to say that about 5-10% of the 1st deck has some scenery, but only a start. The rest of the 1st deck is track, cork, wiring, and plywood only.
Plywood Prarie Sections
Scenic Sections
Not only it ain’t got nuttin’ on it, it don’t even have no place to put nuttin on it!
Translation from my childhood New York dialect - my under-construction layout (steel stud benchwork and to-be-hidden staging yards and thoroughfare tracks, some laid rain-gutter style inside horizontal steel studs) bears a remarkable resemblance to an under-construction photo of Disney World’s Himalaya thrill ride. The part which will be sceniced is still to be built - a couple of track levels above what’s there now, or on other sections of benchwork which are only sketches on the back of envelopes.
That doesn’t stop me from running trains on the two scale kilometers of operational track. (If I wasn’t running trains, I might be building faster…[(-D])
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
WOW! Do I feel better now!
Here’s some of my own blue desert…
texas pink praries here, but i have 20 inch curves though[8D]
Yeah I gots me a Plywood Prarie. Mike
Homasote central still runnin… don’t go there either… 8-P
Hmmm. I have a little of everything.
Pretty much “finished”:
Needs some more work:
Needs quite a bit more work:
A dangerous drop to either side:
…requiring more work and more plaster, too:
And from this point on, more wood, track, time, and money, too:
I can picture it, but for everyone else, more imagination is probably needed, too: [swg]
Wayne
Im flatland at the moment. Nothing but latex paint as far as a HO scaler can see.
However, Im beginning to retrofit the entire surface to get ready for electrical and tracklaying to thier pernament and final places.
If you examine some of my industry, you might find a few cork strips raising the docks to boxcar floor level waiting for final placement and burial by scenery.
I dont intend to put scenery down until everything is perfect with track, wiring and rollingstock/engines.
Blue desert, touch of scenery, buildings.
I added scenery between the main and that lonely siding (the team track)
enjoy!
Philip,
I still have a 4x8 with a small 1x6 staging layout someplace in the basement. I built this for my kids when they were young (16 years ago). Actually I know exactly where it has been all this time.
1/2" luan, Atlas snap track, sw and flex. The kids had a ball will this for many years. Each had thier own Athearn BB painted in whatever they wanted. The layout height is 28" high.
I plan to give it to a friend who’s young ones are now old enough to enjoy it. I’ll find some loco and rolling stock that I can part with to get it going. My son will never give up his Conrail SW1500, and fat chance that my girls will part with their custom painted GP35s. The road numbers are thier birthdays, too.
This is when I actively got back into trains. Now the kids really don’t care much about the hobby, but I’m still completely hooked.
A Pink Prarie here. The next step for me is going to be cutting “puzzle pieces” out of the 2" pink and replacing them with various thicknesses to make the terrain of my river valley…a task that I’ve been putting off till warmer weather when I can move the layout out to the picnic table for that task. One good outcome of the procrastination is that having the Pink Prarie setting here to stare at during the winter months has lead to several modifications, including going completely double track, which if I’d started puzzling earlier, I’d not have had the easy option of doing.
Wayne, that looks like quite the layout you have going on there! It must be pretty good size to get the kind of track height differences shown in the pics. And scenery seems to be well underway too. Good show old chap, good show!
Bob K., how’re you doing? I’ve seen you around the forums some. Things going OK? Are you back to modeling yet? Pullin’ for ya bud!
Zandoz, I’ve been doing something similar. I’ve been really going over my track plan to make sure it’s what my vision is too. So far I haven’t made any changes, but it’s good to stop every now and then to make sure that you’re really headed where you want to go, right?
Then what do you do with your time?
I think he’s working on switching it.