My main goals for this year are to finish the branch line to Clarksville (roadbed has started) and detail and paint the rest of my motive power. Other projects include scenery on the Spadra peninsula once the branch is laid so as to eliminate the abyss. Just the other day I had a GP38 turn itself into a kit after it decided to jump the tracks 53" above the floor. Also I want to get a car card and waybill system in place for op sessions.
You havefound the IF factor, it states that IF you have the money, you don't have the time and IF you have the time you do not have the money! Sadly I have been bothered by this fo far to long.......
My 2010 resolution: Get my hands away from the keyboard and on to my N-scale modules. :mbiggrin: Both need more detailing like people and signing added. The sportsground module needs to have safety stops added and the corner module is begging to get the barriers in place. It´s almost February now: still typing :mhissyfit: iso modelling.
Welcome to TrainBoard, jligthart Doing that along with turning off the television will certainly improve my productivity. Right now, I am up early in a quiet house watching Shakespeare on the BBC. I need to do that. Probably better than watching American Idol. Welcome to TrainBoard.
Sadly, American Idol has a place in my home. It, Biggest Loser, and America's Next Top Model keep my wife occupied so that she doesn't notice that I'm in the train room! :tb-biggrin:
Due to a resent great buy on eBay, I'll be tearing down about 1/2 of my layout to add it. Since I'll be cutting & moving stuff around, there will be major additions to improve & fix all the mistakes I made.
I'm going to be moving back to Maine this May in order to save a little money before purchasing my first home. In the interim I'm planning a small On30 module-based shelf layout. The layout is designed to fit along one wall of the main room of where I'll be staying, with the right two modules measuring 2.5 x 5.5 and the left measuring 3 x 4. Here's a picture of what I'm planning: The railroad I'm attempting to model is a semi-freelanced version of the Martha's Vineyard Railroad, a short steam era road that ran along the eastern coast of its namesake island in the later decades of the 19th Century. It was not a financial success, and folded in 1896 (you can read a bit more here: Martha's Vineyard Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) In my fictional world, the railroad was more financially sound, and managed to survive until WWI, when it was temporarily acquisitioned by the newly-founded U.S. Coast Guard. The Guard, busy with maintaining a cutter operation on the island, upgraded the railroad's infrastructure, most importantly moving the trackage in Oak Bluffs that had once run along a tressel right on the beach onto the adjacent Seaview Avenue. The railroad continued to putter along into the 1960s, where in 1964 it is in its final few years of solvency. By 1970 it'll be in the hands of Dukes County and fully converted into a tourist operation. However, in my time a cannery, coal offloading dock, a shipping interest, and even some inland logging operations keep the road's 2-8-0, 4-6-0 and new 0-4-0 siderod gas engine busy. I've already built the dual-use road/rail bridge seen in the middle module, plus the turn table and a house (these latter two aren't pictured).
Mike.. Whadja get? Whatja get? Tell us! Pleeeze! (picture above as being shouted by an excited 8 year old--or pretty much any Trainboard member)... Have fun Ron
