One week ago today July 29th I put in the first screw to start my layout. I finished the framework Thursday 8/1. Friday I put plywood over the framework. Saturday I glued that cheepy white foam on the plywood. Saturday evening I painted the foam a dark green hoping to blend in with future landscaping. This morning (8/5) I started glueing down the roadbed. This is going to take some time as I have to measure and cut a lot of it for the industry spurs and so forth. I have enought switches to do one end of the yard but none for the other end as the switches have to be curved the oposite way. My old layout for some reason used a lot of left hand swithces and no right hand switches. I will also have to buy a lot more track just to complete the double track circuit.. Oh well. I guess I have the time to wait for the treasurer to shake loose some odd dollars here and there. Maybe after the road bed is finished, I will just sit back, relax and gloat on what I have accomplished so far.
Do you have a picture of the driving of the golden sheetrock screw? (just kidding...) Glad to hear you've gone this far. We're anxious to see what you have when you're done! Drill, ye tarriers, drill! [ 05. August 2002, 23:56: Message edited by: friscobob ]
Great News .... Don't waste time trying to figure out how to operate the camera, just get down there and WORK, WORK, WORK!!!!!
Thanks for the encouragment everybody. I finally finished the film this evening but will be a few days before I can get to town to develope the film. when I get the pictures back and scanned I'll E Mail several of them to several TB members that offered to post them for me.
Here comes the first pictures of Dick´s new layout. The layout room, the frame structure, and the ground surface. Dick, I have reduced the size of the originals of practical reason.
Now there is one intelligent model railroader!!! Look at the convenient location of layout to refrigerator!!! BoxcabE50
The theme is free lance and anything that catches my fancy and anything "N" scale that rolls. My daughter bought the lumber but I got the plywood and 1" white foam. Yup. that is planning except that is a freezer that keeps my ice cream bars in the 100+ weather outside. Robin has three more photos to post here. This week I installed one track of the double track main line and am running trains!!!!! . I am tweeking the track making sure it is perfect. I will have to get some more track and switches as soon as the treasurer lets loose of a few dollars. and right now she says we have bills to pay first.. Meanwhile I am running trains. The first time since before last Christmas when I tore down the old layout.
Here are the three pictures Dick sent to me to post for him. Great progress Dick [ 11. August 2002, 17:24: Message edited by: Robin Matthysen ]
The two photos above with the train is because I just had to run something so layed a temperory track about 6 feet long and ran the train back and forth a few times, then took it back down so I could get started laying roadbed is shown in the last photo. The turntable will be about in the middle of the circle and the switching yard behind it. towards the top of the photo.
Looking good, Dick. It always feels good to get a project underway and then run trains (and photos too!). I hope to be running trains on my new layout soon. Your progress has given me a boot.
To quote the late comedian Freddie Prinze: "looking GOOOOOOOODDDDDDD!" We can hardly wait to see the first run!
Thanks guys. I will have to get another camara. I picked up a throw away camara, brought it home and took a picture and no flash. I checked it over and discovered it is a outside in the sun camara only so will have to get another one for inside and flash. I have one of the main lines completed and am just tweeking out a couple of bugs. Have be running trains with a GP 7 pulling 8 cars up the hill. SD 7 and trainmaster pulled 10 cars each. The best one of all is the G4 Northern 4 8 4. It pulls 14 cars plus the caboose and could probable pull more.. I have grades between 2.5 and 3 percent. This is one of the G4's I got on Ebay for $30.00. Not bad at all.
