Building "Clearwater Industries"

[clearwater]

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:

[Russ Bellinis]

Welcome aboard Thomas. The layout looks great!

[Gary S]

Oh! Night operations! Everything is looking good, welcome to the forum!

[Charlie B]

Welcome to our , now your, world. Great pictures. Great looking layout.
Charlie

[Ralph]

Glad you could join us Thomas! Great looking night shots. Love the lighting and the building interiors.
Ralph

[Tyson Rayles]

Night shots are great, got any day shots?

[Herc Driver]

Really nice night shots!

[steinjr]

Looks good! Like the way you have found room for the car loading docks. How is your layout fitted into the room ?

Smile,
Stein

[shortliner]

As Tony the Tiger would say "G-R-R-R-R-R-E-A-T !!"

[alcanman]

Welcome, great work and nice to see another Florida layout.

Your pics are very good, would love to see some 'daylight' pics.


regards,

Mal

[modelsof1900]

Very nice pictures and wonderful night scenes - Welcome!

[Brakie]

Thomas,Welcome aboard! Nice night photos.

[clearwater]

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!

[Harry]

Thomas, super great work !!!

[Southern Tuxedo]

with all the previous comments. Very nice work!

Mark