Sunday Photo Fun 1-22-06

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Lets have some fun [:D] [:)] [8D] [:p]
Tom

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Good morning all.

Spankybird - great shots. I can’t wait to get my layout started so I can send some ‘real’ pix. In the meantime, here’s one that shows the new shelf I built for my trains. It sits on top of the bookshelf. On it are my 263e and two new additions: a 258t and 262e. The passenger cars are the 529’s and 530. They really go with the 258t, but I was already displaying the freight. Below shows my newest GG-1 on the far right…

Have a great day. [8D]

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Nice Photos

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Photos from Roger’s Corners
Elevation 936 Feet

**Phase II Addition Progress…**All the pre-wiring is completed (See 4th photo) and the front facing board has been added. I will remove it so I can sand it smooth and stain it to match the front facing board on the existing layout. On the third photo down you can see the foam mountain with the caboose inside. The white stripe on the existing facing board is two sided tape where a black table skirt attaches.

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Addition to layout

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Great pics guys - I love that farm scene Spankybird! Is that loco from the MTH Virginia and Truckee set that just came out? Or is it a General? I’m just learning about some of this stuff, so please excuse my ignorance!

Buckeye - man you are really making progress!

Zwbob - is that underneath the layout for storage? Is it a helix or something? I’m definitly going to have to explore dimension -z (up and down) when building my layout due to space constraints.

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Buckeye…That has really come a long way, since I saw it last. Are you going with the same styrofoam top as the original table?
Looks great.
Chuck

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Buckeye–

Benchwork is really lookin’ good, thanks for the progress shots.

Jon

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Jim - thats inside a tunnel The tunnel is on the corner and I removed the outside walls to gain access. Here are a couple of more photos

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I posted several pic’s of the new shelves earlier this week but I thought one today wouldn’t hurt. The trainroom in the basement is really getting to be a favorite place to hang out, just think honey if we had a bigger house what we could do…

Jon

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Jim, This engine is an MTH 4-4-0 Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati RR.

Buckeye - you are years and years ahead of Chief

ZWBob - looks great.

Jon - great looking shelves.

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Buckeye the benchwork looks really good. Question: Maybe you’ve posted this before, but do you have a layout plan you could post? I’d like to see what the finished product is supposed to look like.

Good work.

Dwayne.

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Chuck, I am only going to use two inches of foam for the top and not the two inches plus the one inch low density this time. The facing boards are in place with screws and now I will remove them, sand smooth, stain, re-install, and then start cutting foam.

Here’s the plan view. The bottom of the plan is Phase II.

I think you will be surprised to see how I connect the existing track to the new without much down time. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] The idea came to me after working on the Berea Grade Crossing three years ago. BTW, there is a hidden access hatch beneath the mountain.

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The layout I’ve been working on the last couple weeks. It goes along a countertop, wraps around a pole and through a doorway, into my office with the trains on the wall, and tunnels trough the wall back to the countertop. Hope the pictures give you an idea of this.

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Here’s newest addition to layout. MTH trolley. Very nice

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Good morning all. Really nice pics today…

Here’s a dilemma…With only one track ahead, who goes first ???

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Very nice plan, Buckeye. That ought to be fun to operate.

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All these pictures of ‘adding on’ and expanding and all I have left are pictures on 2005 [:(][:(][:(]

Tom, I swear you keep rebuilding every week! Nice pictures of scenes that I don’t recall seeing you post before.

  • walt
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Here are my sanded heavyweight passenger cars, here are the progress pics.

The combine

The observation.

My new book

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Wow & Boy Oh Boy, you guys really have some great layouts !! Here’s some pics of my new MTH motorcycles & my new Atlas Special Edition Conrail caboose !


Rear mkr. lights flash, plus lots of details, just no smoke !