I’ll pray that you don’t get deployed . Not as much fun as working on a layout. jerry
I’m with you, layout is in the attic & it gets HOT! just cant get enthused with all that sweat. Need to plant many more trees,especially on the mountain, also SHOULD replace some not so great trackwork. Jerry
I NEED to finish the benchwork and lay the mainline for my 3x9 by my sons birthday (one month today). If I just sat down, I could have the benchwork done in a couple or three hours. After I get the mainline up and running I’ll have to add the backdrop/divider and I’m still not sure how I’m going to do that. I’m dividing the table in half length-wise - one half for the mountain mainline run and the other half the yard and industries. Once I get the backdrop up, I’ll start the scenery on the mountain side and that will easily take me into the new year.
I gave up my layout as there wasn’t room in the pickup or trailer to move it to AZ from Washington so my goal is to build a logging diorama while planning a new room on the house for trains and hobbys. I did finish installing decoders in a rail car and a little 4-6-0. They work great on a test track. Trying to figure out how to get sound into a little narrow guage Shay logger. TARP
Modify my RS3 into a CR RS3m… And one day try to make a CF7.
And id also like to start my layout kit and once thats finished plan my Main MRR.
All N scale of course!
Getting my trains out of the storage unit!
To be honest I got plenty of projects I want done this year. I have finished painting and detailing a Bachmann Dash 8 in HO scale.
-
I was told by the landlord ( My father ) The bottom portion of the layout has to be as completed as it can be before Christmas because my great Uncle Fred (He’s going to be 90 this month) wants to go and see it.
-
Various rolling stock and locomotives need to be painted for my freelanced railroad. And for the Milwaukee Road.
-
I want to get started on the second layer of the layout.
-
Build the train Elevator I have had for 5 months.
Thats about it.
This is what I was up to
Well, thanks for the motivation of this thread. My benchwork is virtually complete now so I’m ready to start laying track!
My goal is to have my layout designed by the end of the year and to sell of my SP/UP passenger equipment. I’ve got the measurements for the room
Ch
Save up for a Tower 55 SD70ACe with all the bells and whistles (literally). I think that might take a while though…
-Brandon
My short-term goal is to replace all the turnouts on my classification yard ‘ladder’; I committed a major design faux pas when I laid this track 11 years ago, I used #4 turnouts. Experienced a number of the problems that John Armstrong warned about when I recently read one of his reprinted columns on yard design (August 2006 Model Railroader). So I’m going to rip out the #4’s, and put #6’s in their place. I took the measurements and verified that the space is available.
Great To Hear!!! Glad i Could Help[;)]
Carl.
Is examining the inside of my eyelids spelled with one e or two?
Seriously, I have related in other posts that my present layout is going to have to be torn down and a new, portable one built in its stead. I had been a bachelor for over thirteen years when two years ago I got hitched to the widow lady next door and my layout room got preempted - wouldn’t have it any other way. My train room had to move to where the layout room was and that room is not large enough to do double duty so the layout is going to have to go. Due to circumstances it is probably going to be two years before I am going to be able to commence construction - my new layout will be portable because I no longer have room for a fixed framework one.
I have plenty to do, however. I have a couple of dozen locomotives which I desire to superdetail giving my home road diesels a family resemblance; I am going to create several U33Cs from U30Cs a la an article by Ron Bearden in [I]N-Scale Railroading[/] magazine a few years back. I want to put AAR Type B trucks under some GP30s and GP35s representing locomotives built from ALCO trade-ins; I am going to de-dynamic brake other GP35s. Some B23-7s will get Blombergs. I have decided (subject to change, of course) to set my pike in the 1980s and so I am going to have to remove the roofwalks and shorten the ladders and relocate the brake wheels on a good many of my freight cars. Those that don’t fit will become part of the “scenery”!!!
To save money I have been developing my scratchbuilding skills of late and I have several unfinished projects in this area. My pike is an “Appalachian Crossing” theme and one thing I need to do is build myself a coal mine.
And that should keep me busy into the summer of 2008.
I have three goals to complete for my MRR this year.
(1) finish the new recreation room I started construction on in October 2005. I started the project in October last year but didn’t really put a lot of effort into it until early January.
Working only in the evenings and what weekends I’ve had available has made this project take quite a long time. The mud work has taken the longest, from March to present. I’m not very good when it comes to putting mud on the joints. I sand off half of what I put on. This past weekend I finally got paint on the walls in the rec-room but still have to get the small hallway leading to the room done.
Next steps will be to do the baseboard trim and lay carpet. Once that is done I can move all the furniture into it so I can use the existing rec-room for my layout.
The other two goals are (2) to thoroughly clean the entire house before starting the layout. Finally the last goal for this year (3) is to get the benchwork for the layout completed.
I just bought an airbrush, so my goal is to practice, practice some more, and paint up a Kato E8 in early MBTA commuter colors (all black with some lettering) Also, I’m working on “garage layout mk. III” And well all that’s going on I have to go to auto tech school, have other hobbies, girlfriend, friends, and possibly some rest in between [8D]
Dave
Finish my benchwork, and be ready to lay track so that after my birthday(9-10) I can buy track and lay it. so that All the stuff I get for birthday and christmas I can run. So with that, I’m gonna go work on my layout TTYL and thanks for all the posts here that started to get me motivated!
Fininsh my layout by the end of the year.
dekruif
Get as much scenery done before the National next year as possible. Operations should start back up in October if I can get the place cleaned up enough.
Today I cleaned off what used to be the HO CNW Altoona WI Yard, Ripped up all the work, and nails. Took off the plywood and shortened it to 7 foot from 11 feet. Put legs under it, and my eventual Peninsula is more being an Island currently, But tomorrow that could change.[8D]
- Wait for my garage’s inside temp. to drop below 80. 2. Make trip to LHS for $200 worth of new crap. 3. Begin construction on downtown area of layout and/or begin new layout (4x8). 4. Get some money to do all of this!!!
-beegle55