This is the first post and intended pace-marker for my developing N-scale layout - the Pandorum Project. This project will be entirely constructed inside a travel trailer I just acquired, to allow it to be moved without harm, and will feature both the Pandorum industrial complex and railroad, including a mine, a factory complex and a town. This layout, based roughly around 1900, is a fantasy layout, designed to allow me full freedom to try anything and everything associated with layouts, design of buildings, locomotives, railroad rolling stock and whimsical machines. My ultimate goal is to animate as many different facets as I can.


The chosen name has no relationship to the film Pandora, but is based upon my concept, and my feeling that I, too am opening up something the consequences of which I cannot predict, but I expect it to a wonderful experience. My concept begins with the partnership of Dr. Emmett Brown and Mr. Nikola Tesla to develop and market both Mr. Tesla's and Doc Brown's concepts and inventions.

The first photos will be posted shortly, beginning with the trailer and the conversion into a rolling layout and workshop, and will be followed by photos of the layout itself as it progresses.

At all times at at any point, questions, comments, suggestions and criticism will be welcome

Sounds interesting MM. I'm in, let the good times roll

Joe

Cool! Do you plan on taking the layout "on the road", or does the trailer help just in case you have to move?

Ultimately both. The original intent was to simplify the process of moving, since we currently live in a rental, but it occurred to me that I could possibly also go to train shows with it.

Sounds like a plan.....Go get' em..!!
Will be looking forward to progress reports....and LOTS of pictures..!!

My apologies for not posting anything further - I had extensive surgery on my right eye and have only just been allowed to return home. I now await the final check-up and a date for the surgery on my left eye, the surgery date for my wife's kidey stone, and some time in there somewhere to move into our new home.

Rest assured, however, that plans and construction on Pandorum are proceeding, albeit far much slower than I had previously planned, and the new home may lead to a re-design.

That's it for now...I will try to check in again later on. The surgery takes obne eye out of circulation for up to three weeks or more and prohibits any altitude change greater that 1000 feet. Since the surgery is done in Colorado Springs at 6000 feet, and I live at over 7000 feet, access to a computer and the ability to use it are both a tad limited at the moment, but that which does not kill us truly does makes us stronger.

Sorry to hear about the surgeries. Best wishes to you and your wife for speedy recoveries!
Ralph

Hope you and Mrs. Mountainman get well soon......

Best wishes for a speedy recovery! And for all the upcoming events too...

Andrew

I feel for you, Mr. Mountain ...

My dad had glaucoma and over the years had thirty-two eye proceedures to open up passages to relieve the pressure. I always felt so sorry for him, sitting around, not being able to do anything, with a big padded patch over one eye or the other!

Hang in there ... it will get better in time. I'm sure it's all for the best, and you will see better when it's all said and done.

I'll mention you in my "nightly conversation."

I had eye surgery and was told that I shouldn't fly and I should avoid dental offices that used laughing gas!

P5se Camelback Wrote:I feel for you, Mr. Mountain ...

My dad had glaucoma and over the years had thirty-two eye proceedures to open up passages to relieve the pressure. I always felt so sorry for him, sitting around, not being able to do anything, with a big padded patch over one eye or the other!

Hang in there ... it will get better in time. I'm sure it's all for the best, and you will see better when it's all said and done.

I'll mention you in my "nightly conversation."

Thanks...I'm currently working on a Braile system for N-scale modeling! :mrgreen:

BR60103 Wrote:I had eye surgery and was told that I shouldn't fly and I should avoid dental offices that used laughing gas!

Yeah, me too...however, in Colorado we don't think about the constant significant changes in altitude caused by merely driving around. It is possible to go from 5,000 feet to over 11,000 feet during a twenty minute car ride! hock:

Get well soon, MM. I've missed your musings here at The Gauge!

Oh man...That's not good...
Hope you have a speedy and successful recovery, so's you can get back to the important things.....TRAINS..!!