Last days of the Roanoke and Southern

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have started a post on Railroad Line of the last days before I tear out my layout. I will posting over the next few days new photos of the line being tore up and some videos

http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30416

Jeff

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Forgive me if you’ve covered this elsewhere, but why are you tearing out that layout?

It looks very good and seems to operate well?

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Very nicely-done layout and well-photographed, too.

Wayne

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What kinda track did you use and why are you taking down that great layout

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How come you’re tearing down the railway? It’s very well done and is a very good take on appalachian railroading. Secondly, what section of your railway are you planning on modeling next?

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Great photos. Sad to see. Even the paint scheme on the diesels says southeast. Very realistic for the time period.

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Very nice layout sad to see it tore down i enjoyed the article in MR earlier this year

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From reading the posts on that thread it seems he is planning to build another layout.

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As they say on eBay: “W@W!”

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Undoubtedly there, coaltrain, you have your reasons for why you choose to scrap this layout . . . . . I certainly hope that this is not indicative that you are leaving model railroading. It is your business of course but I am glad that you have taken the opportunity to post photos highlighting your excellent modeling.

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Looks like excellent work! [tup]

While you may have your personal reasons, I do join and echo the others: WHy tear it down?

{I can only see two great reasons too:

1} you are moving

2} you are tired of it, have built it up as much as you wanted, and now you wish start a new layout and/or model something else}

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Shame to see it go.

One poster mentioned On30, what’s to become of the HO equipment? Udoubtedly, some should be kept for memories, will the others sell off?

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thanks all, was out of town for the weekend.

Yes, I am tearing down the layout to make a new layout, it will be a different scale as well. I have been planing to take this layout down for the last few years for a few reasons.

  1. the aisles are very narrow and I have grown tired of the twisting and turning required to move around in the room. I store lots of stuff under the layout that I have to get to on a weekly basis and moving around the room is difficult. I have not grown in diameter myself but I have gotten older and my back is not what it once was.

  2. I had been planning on building a layout that had a running loop that I could use to test and break in new equipment.

  3. I was going to switch to model a prototype railroad.

  4. My wife and I are planning on moving in about 8 years so the railroad would come down anyways.

  5. the layout has been mostly complete the last three years and I have the desire to build again. the layout was actually complete about 5 years ago but I went back and rebuilt two areas of the layout.

why I am switching scale, because I have always liked O scale and narrow gauge that I thought it would be fun to try something that I have always wanted, and the new Bachmann stuff is so nice and cheap that I figured there is no better time to try it. Besides, I have a few years to test the scale to see if I like it before I build what I figure will be my last layout in my next house.

While researshing information on a prototype project I had become interested in a narrow gauge railroad called the Mann’s Creek railroad, which was a narrow gauge coal hauler in West Virginia which operated until the mid 50s. My new layout will feature a couple areas of the Mann’s Creek.

Thanks f

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the track in hand laid.

Jeff