All of the portals and elevated track supports that I make have some sort of “personal meaning” graffiti on them. This one is really out there though.
1/49 = when I was born.
6/02 = when my son got married
12/03 = when my daughter got married
4/06 = BOTH my son’s wife and my daughter are expecting that month (same day actually!).
I have lots of personal stuff like that on a lot of things. This one’s kind of cheesy because I just wasn’t in the mood to put time into it to fancy it up. But something, to me, is better than just having a plaing portal.
Spankybird; I really like your layout but one thing sticks out to me and is a distraction, the transformer on the top of the layout and switch controls. Would it be possible to mount these under the layout on a lower table or the switches on a piece of plywod?
I used to live in Reading PA, that’s why phillyreading.
Lee in south Florida aka phillyreading
Philyreading – that is a good point and maybe my next project. Here is the complete control table. Before I added DCS, the height of the ZW was and is great for conventional control of my trains. As you see, I also have a KW below it. In the bottom cabinet is the DCS TIU and circuit breaker box along with extra smoke fluid, etc.
It is convenient for me to operate the trains, but does get in the way of taking pics. [;)]