Hello all. It’s 4:30am and I couldn’t sleep, so I thought I might as well get up and start looking for things to get into. I’ve always got my “things to do” list laying here on my desk, and at the top of it are all the things I’d like to do this year on my layout. As some of you might recall I made a vow that I won’t buy anything train related this year which I can live with, but then, I’ve already bought the materials for the projects that I’ve had lined up months ago. I’ve got about six modern automobiles that need to be painted and assembled, crossing signals that need to be assembled and installed, a track side live stock pen that needs to be built, target signals that need to be built and installed, a baggage cart to build for the station, a painted but unlettered/numbered 2-8-0 Consolidation that I want to make into a Southern Pacific. The list goes on, but it would take half the day to list it all… Of course I’ve still got my job to go to and all of the other around the house things that need to be done as well as animals that have to be tended to, so if I’m lucky, I might get all of the layout things done by mid summer. The first thing I’ve got to do is get over this Ecoli that’s occupying my insides right now… Man, I wouldn’t wish this stuff on my worst enemy!. Tracklayer
Good morning Tracklayer…
I plan to rip up my old American Layout and sell what I can of the HO track and sell all my rollingstock and locomotives apart from my Genesis SD45-2 and possibly not my SD45T-2, everything else is going…I then plan to build a HOn3.5 (12mm track) layout based on Queensland Railways modern operations, i’ll also have a dual gauge track to run my American Locomotives and my regular HO Australian rollingstock i’ll be aquiring in the near future… I plan to build a continous running 16’ x 5’ layout with two HOn3.5 tracks and one Dual Gauge track running around, with staging at the back. there will be a small town and/or suburban station with limited switching, I would really prefer a large around the wall layout but space restricts my options, plus what I plan on building will be better for exhibiting (which I plan on doing at some stage) and for photography.
Cheers,
James.
What I have planned - progress.
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Laurel engine terminal will be completed.
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Glenrock siding will be completed and scenery at least started there.
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Track through Thermopolis will be installed, and some scenery started.
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Track laid in Wind River Canyon and through Shobon and Powder River.
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Some structures will be constructed.
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Additional rolling stock constructed.
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spend more money on things I don’t need,
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spend more time @ trains.com
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dream big, but accomplish even less
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drink a cold one and evaluate the situation better
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246)cover shot GMR 2045, you guys are gonna be so jealous.
- seeing my trains in MR , priceless
Maybe this year, I’ll actually get to run a train or two. And no, running a GP7 and a gondola simply to “keep the line open” shortly after the layout was moved home doesn’t count! Oh well, at least the layout has a nice warm basement to live in…even though not all the electrical connections work yet. Now, if I could only get some scenery…
Good Morning, Tracklayer.
My goals are more modest. Sometime between now and April, when my current round of business travels end, finish the track plan. Sometime after that, install lighting and mount benchwork and backdrop material so I can actually start building again. If, by the end of '07 I’m able to have that done along with some subroadbed and, heaven forbid, a short section of track back up and running, I’d be a happy camper.
That may seem ambitious, but all the L-girders I need actually made the move along with two helixes. So, I have most of the material, I just need a plan and time.
Hope your internal issues pass soon.
More buildings and scenery.
Let see-
(1) FINISH laying track
(2) Complete engine terminal
(3) Complete industrial town of Kampton
(4) Upgrade rolling stock so cars don’t derail every time I back up
(5) Get some scnery started
(6) Buy more engines I don’t need[:D]
Finishing benchwork and getting the track down would be good. I’d also like to get some basic scenery in, but we’ll see.
I’m tearing down my old layout, but salvaging the upper portion, Rock Ridge. There are 3 major projects left on that layout–not counting tearing it down and reframing it–of which I have just about completed one. I hope to complete the other two by mid-Feb.
I’m also staring a new N-scale layout. I have the plan fairly well layed out, but I need to finance it. I’m selling off a lot of my HO stuff on eBay under cenglemann to finance it, and I hope to get enough to get it started by mid-Feb. when a train show comes to town and I can scrounge.
Hi, Tracklayer. I hope to finish laying the turnouts and getting my yard scenicked over the next couple of weeks. I have to place a double-slip switch and get it tuned (it is handlaid) to let all engine types run through it in both directions. That may take two weeks all by itself.
Later, I need to start working on my built-up areas with streets, curbs, trees (lots n’ lots of trees), and generally flesh out the lower level.
Finally, later in the spring, complete a lift-out bridge, build Danby Sawmill, a Kanamodel steam era water tower patterned after an old E&N Ry one that is preserved at Parksville on V. Island, and other odds and ends.
Life just keeps getting in the way of my modelling!
The garage. I need to get the garage emptied out. It’s a small single-stall with four motorcycles, lots of tools, tons of boxes from moving and my layout benchwork materials stored in there. The plan is to build new storage.
Getting that emptied out will let me move all the storage in the basement to the garage so that I can start my new basement layout. Benchwork will start as soon as the room is empty, which will be hopefully soon if our weather holds.
I’m really excited about putting in a roundhouse and modelling my diesel servicing area. Been taking pics down at the local yard lately and have been fascinated by this in particular.
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Wife to clear out area in basement
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Have basement detected for radon and then mitigated(removed) as will likely be needed–this is an important and common issue here in central Ohio
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Finally start on benchwork–maybe in the next couple of months!!!
Jim
I hope to finish my layout this year (yeah, your all saying “You can never finish a layout”). All of my benchwork is complete a long with my track being laid. The only thing left is to build a few more buildings and complete the scenery.
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Complete industrial section, track, structures, pavement, and ground cover. 90% there.
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Scenic the corner of the layout behind the engine terminal, including a liftout hill for emergency access.
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Move the entrance to the yard to eliminate a problem S-curve.
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Get base scenery down for the entire mainline so I can run trains without looking at any bare plywood.
These are ambitious goals given that my model railroading season lasts just through March. But since I am retired and it’s too cold to play golf. I think I have a shot. As long as I don’t spend too much time on these forums.
Finish scenery, trees (FINALLY!!!), and buildings.
Oh, and about a million other small, but important things!
Ill do 1,4,5, and 6 lol. I know what I want and stuff so now its just a matter of time to get all the $$ I only need about 7-8 more switches, about 15 more freight cars, about 5 more engines and all my scenery supplies. This should all be done by about Midsummer. Then I’ll just run trains for a while and save up my money. Around November I want to start building a T shaped Pennsylvani RR based layout in N scale with to 36x84 interior doors.
I’d like to start my layout.
Why cant you model past March?
Get The mainline running fairly Consistant, with No voltage drops, dead spots. Get all 3 Sidings in Place. Finish the Industrial area trackwork, get the 2 spurs in Welch done. Get the Branchline up to the coal mine(risers/benchwork, trackwork) and the track up the interchange(even more benchwork). Equip the rest of my fleet with Decoders. Buy more rolling stock. Equip all the rolling stock with Micro-trains Couplers, and Possibly the the Signaling boards and dectectors in place. Main thing though is Get the Trackwork done, and the engines decoders so I can actually operate!