Seven Locks & Earl RR

Garden Railroading
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The Seven Locks & Earl RR is a work project I have been working on. I have been rebuilding some of the stone walls, leveling and ballasting, redigging grades (one was about 6%), building building kits (Piko & Pola), staging and lighting them and setting out all the little folks. I also built wood and stone portals to run under “deck mountain”. Tonight, I helped out with a photo shoot for a “lawyers and their hobbies” story for the magazine “Legal Times”.

The layout is a big double loop with two additional point loops. It is all RCS battery power. The layout also features a few EagleWing bridges.

The track plan -

The West End (Seven Locks) -

The town of Seven Locks -

I put together the station (repainted), shop, general store, and gas station

I also put together these tractor and wagon kits. I wired the tractor headlights into the landscape lights used for the buildings. The headlights are LEDs with the help of a bridge rectifier and 1K ohm resistor.

Center Bridge

Service area (I put together the coaling station)

East End

Far Point Loop (the

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Work project? Does that mean that you are being PAID by someone else to have FUN??? Where do I sign up??

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Part of it was fun, like putting together the kits. Others were not, like redigging the grade under the deck when it was a muggy 90 degrees with no breeze [xx(].

-Brian

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Excellent “work” Brian. Are you are becoming the east coast version of Rick the RR guy? This is looking very good.

Paul

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Dam, that is a nasty sayn, next Alt will be on eBay tryn to get jobs [(-D]

Really Alt, not sure I could do it for another unless they where helping. But pay is good too [:-^]

Toad

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Nice work Brian.

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Great job Brian; looks like some on line car storage could be developed under the deck, I hate hauling rolling stock back and forth.