The diesel shop is a pair of Walthers car shops spliced together, minus one column of windows. I added a scratchbuilt roof and removed some of the fancy cornice detail on the ends. I also added some walkways and inspection pits inside.
Oh! Now that’s very nice, Thanks. :thumbs_up: I hope you don’t mind if I try to do that as well. I ended up buying the Cornerstone Car Shop and 2-Stall Engine house for my layout, but I’m not happy with the Engine House, it just doesn’t fit in.
If you don't mind my asking, what size/code are the rails inside your shop building? They look like just regular rails with the ties removed and laid in parallel grooves- very well done, too. And even though I'm not a big Conrail fain, I like the assortment of blue power you have.
Thanks! It's just Atlas code 55 track denuded of its ties. The grooves are already molded into the bases that comes with the kits. The current pics show Conrail, but I could just as easily fill the scene with Brunswick Green sharknoses and Alcos and an assortment of Belpaire-fireboxed steam.
So I'm guessing that with the combination of your new Enola Yard section, and that add-on staging yard you built earlier, you should be able to do some serious train-running, regardless of the era.
Enola Yard now connects where the old 3-track staging yard did. I had already gutted part of the 3-track yard looking for some track to donate to a charity raffle layout. It was always under-capacity and had little lateral stability (in other words, if you bumped it even lightly, all the trains would fall over).
I'm taking the whole layout to a train show in Omaha this weekend. So, while I had the folding legs folded in, I photographed the layout on the floor from a ladder. I had to splice two pictures together.
Thanks! I typically do one show per year. This is the first time I'll be displaying Enola Yard. This is also the first show where I'll be running all Conrail instead of Pennsy.
Well Dave, Looks good. Looks like you are slowly filling that basement! If I had to guess, you are going to extend Enola yard, then run the main back around behind it, and then meet up with the main in the original layout at Jacks Run? Then you can get rid of the main line on the original layout, between Jacks Run and Lewisport? Well its just an idea! Brian Sklarski NECR Engineer
At some point I am going to aquire a trailer so I can start taking modules to shows. I am going to be taking On30 modules though.
