The timing of the closing and upgrading of this forum coincides with the ending of one chapter of my layout and the preparation for another. Saturday I finished disassembling the Bunter Ridge Southwestern, which now sits in bundled piles of lumber, boxes of track and roadbed and two assembled helices (I had to look up the plural of helix!). When we sell our house here in Virginia, we will move south and those components will be put back to use.
The good news is that the downside and angst of dismantling the line rests on this forum. With the new forum, my focus will be on planning the new rendition and looking ahead. From the ashes rises the phoenix…although the Bunter Ridge SW services Albuquerque, not Phoenix.
The plans and bright ideas are developing in my head…sort of aged in the wood!
I’m working on crudely placing critical curves and loops in the available space diagram and connecting them up, which will result in a boring straight to curve diagram, probably a folded dogbone. Once that line drawing is done I will probably pop it out on the new, improved forum for comments. I actually like planning, when I have time to do it!
I like planning too. But I am stuck with a space problem I have’t solved yet so I am worlking out my frustrations on the table layout. I figure I have a couple years to solve the problem–still it haunts me.
So…moving to Albuquerque, Adelie? Bring your own water. On your SWern modeled layout, no water is permitted. Only cacti and tumbleweeds…(This is from a 28 year resident…) Dust is ok; rust is not to be found, but can be confused with freight car red. I discovered “green” while in the Navy and returned home long enough to recover from some injuries, then left for the Pacific NW.
I haven’t looked back since. Albuquerque will always be home…that’s where the parents are, but man is it DRY…HOT…scorching hot…chap your lips in five minutes hot…fry an egg on your car hood HOT!! I only go back to visit AFTER Thanksgiving, but before Washington’s birthday. That’s when it’s coolest.
make-sure-you-never-get-your-nechwork-even-slightly-humid-or-it-warps-to-heck hot? Sounds like a fun place…
Good luck with the trackplan - Can’t wait to see it!