First Layout in 25 Years - The Beginning

GSEC Apr 20, 2016

  1. GSEC

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  2. JimJ

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    Great start so far! Keep us posted.
     
  3. BoxcabE50

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    You've started. A lot of us have troubles getting past the drawing board. Hope you will keep moving steadily forward!
     
  4. dalebaker

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    Suppose the wife has no problem with a layout in the kitchen......cool!!! You need a depressed center flat to bring in the cold "refreshment".
     
  5. GSEC

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    Not quite that convenient. Layout is in the basement on top of what used to be the bar (that was used maybe twice as a bar). That fridge was here when we bought the house in 1991 and we figured out it was at least 15 years old then.

    Got out and bought the remaining track I needed and finished the oval. Will finish the second turnout tomorrow, but not sure when the reversing modules will arrive. Having a ball running that new SD40-2 round and round and round and round and round and round...well, you get the idea.:ROFLMAO:
     
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  6. Manitobamodeler24

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    Looking great!
     
  7. Mr. Trainiac

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    What kind of scenery are you going to put on it? Or what railroad is it?
     
  8. GSEC

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    Wow, where does time go? Other than to get something out of that old 'fridgerator I haven't been near the layout for nearly two months! Summer got in the way? Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. :p

    I completed the oval and ran the new engine round and round and round...well, you get the idea...while installing the second turn-around so it is now a dog-bone layout. No wiring to the turn outs, yet, but I did buy inexpensive double frog juicer (Tam Valley Depot) for them.

    Still unsure about scenery/location, but the line is pure fantasy and based on my kids' first name initials (K & T) and our last name initial (L). It's the Tea Kettle Line (T&KL). Perhaps a sea port, an industrial area with a steel mill, and there has to be some farm country, too, and a yard of some sort.

    What is down right now is temporary. No roadbed and the track was laid down with hot-melt glue (extremely effective) just to get some track down and provide an incentive to continue. ( :ROFLMAO: ). Heck, I'm still trying to decide whether to stay with HO or step into N gage. I realize I can't get all my plans into an HO this size, but cost of changing is more than daunting.

    So, ya'll can see I haven't been ignoring it, or you. Just arguing with myself. Maybe I'll 'Q some chicken this afternoon which is ample reason to drink a beer. :D
     
  9. Mr. Trainiac

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    Sounds like fun. Your railroad name is pretty creative. I would never have thought of that name. Good Luck!
     
  10. BoxcabE50

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    At the base of Marias Pass, Montana, on it's west side, the real climb starts where trains must wind their way across the face of Teakettle Mountain:

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