02-12-2011, 07:39 PM
Well, after 10 years and alot of thinking, pondering, rethinking, moving, budgeting & ploting, the Pemberville Sub is finally taking shape.
Our layout started out being just a freelanced, no frills layout and has since become a mostly prototypical layout designed around the C&O's Chicago Division - Pemberville Subdivision which runs out of Walbridge yard in Walbridge, Ohio south to Fostoria, Ohio. We are just modeling the Walbridge yard to Pemberville, Ohio section. The era of our layout will be mid 60's to mid 70's.
We started working on the benchwork a few weeks ago and have advanced slowly. (The wife was running the drill last night and what a sight that was)
The benchwork is almost ready with just some horizontal support for the legs needing to be installed. Haven't figured out when I want to install those since we want to keep the underside open as much as possible for future installation of staging, wiring, shelving or storage. One other item is the installation of the dogbone on the south end of the layout which would have been easier with a "L" girder design but we will make it work somehow. Don't laugh at the original height adjusters. (Who says books are only good for reading) I made up some totally awesome adjusters at work and these were installed today and appear to work great. The only real problem we ran into during the installation of the benchwork was that absolutely NOTHING is square. Not sure what I was thinking when I thought it might be 
Oh well, ballast and grass cover alot right? 
We haven't decided on which DCC manufacturer we are going to go with but that will probably be decided in the next few weeks.
Future expansion of the layout will take place on the outside wall. This will include the actual Walbridge yard and hopefully a steel mill.
Well, hopefully I didn't bore ya to death and I look forward to some feedback. (Please make it positive. I can't handle bad stuff) Just joking. Below is a link to the first pictures taken of the benchwork.
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Our layout started out being just a freelanced, no frills layout and has since become a mostly prototypical layout designed around the C&O's Chicago Division - Pemberville Subdivision which runs out of Walbridge yard in Walbridge, Ohio south to Fostoria, Ohio. We are just modeling the Walbridge yard to Pemberville, Ohio section. The era of our layout will be mid 60's to mid 70's.
We started working on the benchwork a few weeks ago and have advanced slowly. (The wife was running the drill last night and what a sight that was)
The benchwork is almost ready with just some horizontal support for the legs needing to be installed. Haven't figured out when I want to install those since we want to keep the underside open as much as possible for future installation of staging, wiring, shelving or storage. One other item is the installation of the dogbone on the south end of the layout which would have been easier with a "L" girder design but we will make it work somehow. Don't laugh at the original height adjusters. (Who says books are only good for reading) I made up some totally awesome adjusters at work and these were installed today and appear to work great. The only real problem we ran into during the installation of the benchwork was that absolutely NOTHING is square. Not sure what I was thinking when I thought it might be Oh well, ballast and grass cover alot right? We haven't decided on which DCC manufacturer we are going to go with but that will probably be decided in the next few weeks.
Future expansion of the layout will take place on the outside wall. This will include the actual Walbridge yard and hopefully a steel mill.
Well, hopefully I didn't bore ya to death and I look forward to some feedback. (Please make it positive. I can't handle bad stuff) Just joking. Below is a link to the first pictures taken of the benchwork.
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Rob - Modeling the B&O & C&O into Chessie System in the Toledo, Ohio area in the late 60's - early 70's