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Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 02-11-2012 Hi, for several month I´ve been reading as a unregistered member of the forum. I think here are great artists doing their work in sparetime and I collected many impressions of building an American railroad. Since the age of 3 i´ve been involved in model railroads. This is now about 45 years ago! I started with LEGO, went to TRIX Express at the age of 6 and took any German model railroad manufacturer in H0 and N you can imagine..... In 2000 I was contaminated with the virus of American railroading - simply terrible! May be that is the reason why I post my exploits here .... Are you interested? then follow me to "Clearwater Industries" I will show you "the making of" and the "expansion of" Clearwater Industries sincerely Thomas! P.S. first of all some small impressions: (I hope the pictures are´nt too big!) my first plan to build: first impressions: Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Russ Bellinis - 02-11-2012 Welcome aboard Thomas. The layout looks great! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Gary S - 02-11-2012 Oh! Night operations! Everything is looking good, welcome to the forum! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Charlie B - 02-11-2012 Welcome to our , now your, world. Great pictures. Great looking layout. Charlie Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Ralph - 02-11-2012 Glad you could join us Thomas! Great looking night shots. Love the lighting and the building interiors. Ralph Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Tyson Rayles - 02-11-2012 Night shots are great, got any day shots? Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Herc Driver - 02-11-2012 Really nice night shots! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - steinjr - 02-12-2012 Looks good! Like the way you have found room for the car loading docks. How is your layout fitted into the room ? Smile, Stein Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - shortliner - 02-12-2012 As Tony the Tiger would say "G-R-R-R-R-R-E-A-T !!" Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - alcanman - 02-12-2012 Welcome, great work and nice to see another Florida layout. Your pics are very good, would love to see some 'daylight' pics. regards, Mal Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - modelsof1900 - 02-12-2012 Very nice pictures and wonderful night scenes - Welcome! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Brakie - 02-12-2012 Thomas,Welcome aboard! Nice night photos. Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - clearwater - 02-12-2012 Hi folks, thank you for welcomming me so nice. As you can see from the track plan I intended to build a timesaver. In reality I put it on 2 segments of 90*50cm (about 35.5 * 19.7 inch each) opposite to my first drawing (3 segments) to save space and to have the chance to put it quickly on a table for some short sessions meanwhile (pictures will follow). I am still sorting my photographs - I elected some from the "bright side" of my layout for you. I hope you like them as well. Where is the layout placed ? Originally Florida - the only state in the US I visited till this day, but I do like the West as well - so please be lenient towards me when you see Santa Fe and UP locos and cars as well, thank you. My buildings have real prototypes in Miami FL, I will show them by and by. sincerely Thomas! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Harry - 02-12-2012 Thomas, super great work !!! Re: Building "Clearwater Industries" - Southern Tuxedo - 02-13-2012 with all the previous comments. Very nice work! Mark |