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CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 Greeting all. This is my first post on Big Blue. As I've been lurking in the background for quite sometime I thought I should say hello. I hope you all had a great Christmas. I did, I was luck enough to receive a set of MRS legs (http://www.modelrailwaysolutions.co.uk/) for my baseboard so after stuffing myself on Christmas day and then the obligatory Boxing day trip to relatives. Holiday Tuesday seemed the right time to get the legs out and see if they worked Unfortunately as the first photo below shows the braces were missing, so I fired off a quick email to Martin at MRS and the braces duly arrived today. I'm hoping you can see a photo..... I was more than happy with the legs so I dropped some 3/8 ply on the top and started laying some track. By the end of Tuesday night I had trains running and it looked like this Wednesday to follow Chris Re: CTU spur Alaska - faraway - 12-30-2011 Hi Chris, welcome! All the photos did not make it into your posting. Only the placeholder "image" is displayed. Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 Tuesdays should be on now :oops: Re: CTU spur Alaska - faraway - 12-30-2011 wsor4490uk Wrote:Tuesdays should be on now :oops:Yep, all visible! Thanks for posting. Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 On Wednesday I started the warehouse, ballasted the track and painted the road. Yesterday's to follow Chris Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 Yesterday it was time to hide the fiddle yard and the seed and feed mill and the tank siding.... Still a lot of work to do on the Feed and Seed Mill I've had to move the layout out of the den today because we have visitors your comments welcome Chris Re: CTU spur Alaska - faraway - 12-30-2011 wsor4490uk Wrote:On Wednesday I started the warehouse,...Good looking. So you will be finished on Sunday. Any plans for a new layout next week Just kidding. You are working very fast and I really like what I see Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 faraway Wrote:wsor4490uk Wrote:On Wednesday I started the warehouse,...Good looking. So you will be finished on Sunday. Any plans for a new layout next week Just kidding. You are working very fast and I really like what I see Thanks Reinhard I have a seven day window before I'm back at work and as the layout was booked earlier this year to appear at next years Nottingham East Midlands Railway Exhibition http://www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk/exhibmain1.htm I thought I better get on with it.. Re: CTU spur Alaska - Russ Bellinis - 12-30-2011 Welcome aboard! The layout looks great so far. Is the CTU spur in Alaska a real place? Having been on a couple of cruises to Alaska courtesy of the United States Coast Guard on Alaskan Fishery Patrols, I can tell you that every thing I saw up there looked like an "evergreen jungle." I wasn't up there during the winter, but on the summers that I spent up there, it rained sometime during the day every single day. In fact it is so wet up there that it wasn't until the Japanese tried using drying sheds with fires burning beneath the lumber stacks that anyone succeeded in doing any sort of commercial lumbering up there. The exception to the evergreen jungle look was the Aleutian Island chain, they were some of the most desolate places I've ever seen! Re: CTU spur Alaska - shortliner - 12-30-2011 Like I said when we spoke earlier, Chris, it amazes me the speed you work at - The tee-nuts and bolts, are in the post. Reinhard - don't encourage him! He doesn't need it! Jack Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 Russ Bellinis Wrote:Welcome aboard! The layout looks great so far.Russ No its made up but I've cherry picked some industries off the APU spur in Anchorage http://www.alaskarails.org/industries/APU.html the warehouse is based on Frontier Papers seen athttp://maps.google.com/maps?q=alaska&hl=en&ll=61.222049,-149.845641&spn=0.005888,0.017917&sll=52.415149,-2.141541&sspn=0.00746,0.017917&vpsrc=6&hnear=Alaska&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=61.222139,-149.845641&panoid=tErTaLwil9yvW7h7hDNHMQ&cbp=12,340.81,,0,-0.65 and i'm hoping to get the track to look like this http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=254395&nseq=14 The warehouse can be seen in the far left The Feed and Seed is seen here http://maps.google.com/maps?q=alaska&hl=en&ll=61.222545,-149.854676&spn=0.000741,0.00224&sll=52.415149,-2.141541&sspn=0.00746,0.017917&vpsrc=6&hnear=Alaska&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=61.222545,-149.854676&panoid=j9Xj-B2SLIPVs1SIz_oflQ&cbp=12,226.99,,0,4.96 I'm also hoping the street running will look like this http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=254369&nseq=15 and this http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=282677&nseq=7 I love all the power lines... Re: CTU spur Alaska - wsor4490uk - 12-30-2011 Below is the track plan should you wish to see it.... Re: CTU spur Alaska - alcanman - 12-30-2011 Hi Chris, Great to see a new layout from you. Looks superb so far, and you certainly work fast! Inspirational, looks really interesting. Keep the pics coming, please! cheers, Mal Re: CTU spur Alaska - Tyson Rayles - 12-30-2011 Looks good so far, I like to see railroads like this that are rarely modeled! Re: CTU spur Alaska - Ralph - 12-30-2011 Hi there and welcome! Like everyone else I'm impressed with how quickly you get things done and in such a fine manner. Looking forward to updates! Ralph |