Big Al and his crew kill some time before their run.

Bruce

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I was just watching this UP training vid and couldn't help but feel sorry for the host, the pore guy gets tossed and bumped around a bunch in it.

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Can anyone help with a color photo of a PRR steam locomotive's cab interior? I am still
working on my H-9 locomotive from the "Get off your Duff" challenge and I will soon be approaching detailing the cab interior. Any help would be appreciated.

Thx

Mark

With the planned sale of my HO Scale layout - West Allen Street - I will be left, for the first time in several years, without a layout.

I've got a couple of tiny N scale micro layouts that have gotten to/past the wiring stage before being shelved, so I thought it best to crack on with one of them and get it finished.

Initially, the layout was due to be set in New Orleans, however my love of the Southern and the L&N has made me think about moving the layout further north. Having built a layout set in Virginia, one in Kentucky, and am currently working on a layout set in Georgia, I thought - why not North Carolina?

North Carolina has the benefit of a coastline, and this layout was always supposed to be a waterfront themed layout. On top of that, I've been wanting to build a layout using the Clevermodels Waterfront Collection for a while.

As such, I've looked around, and decided to borrow the name Radio Island from a real place on the coast of NC.

The layout won't be a representation of the real place, however.

Benchwork is made from 5mm foam board, creating a very sturdy but very light base. Trackwork is Peco setrack switches, a little flextrack for the straight sections and then Kato unitrack for the curves.

Minimum radius is about 6", so rolling stock will need to be 40', and locomotives small switchers. I've got a Bachmann 44t switchers, and an Atlas MP15DC, both in Southern colours, and I'm currently looking to get hold of L&N 98 and 99 - a pair of GE 70t switchers.

Photographs of my starting point are below, however a lot of the structures shown below are mockups, and won't actually be on the finished model.





I've started building some of the Waterfront Collection to go on the layout, starting with Witten's Chandelry, Haven Point Lighthouse, and Zelmer & Co Merchantile.

I'll post progress photos on the builds as they progress.

While grabbing some photos of the South Jersey Cruisers' trucks, WPMA-29 came by.

Bruce

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Hello,

I bought an Atlas N scale Master line locomotive with DCC. When I put it on the track and use address 3 it does not move. Do you have to push other CV's before the locomotive will move? As I'm not familiar with Atlas.

thank you

Paul

The current part of the layout with scenery consists of a main part in the foreground and a long feeder track in the background connecting four industries. It is connected to the main part by curve close to the window. This rear part looks nice but I hesitate to switch it due to the inconvenience to reach it.
An other topic is my interest in urban areas other than industries.
And the third topic is a possible upcoming reworks of the room with a new layout from scratch.

I intend to handle all three aspects with Freelance 2017-2 by covering the rear part of the layout and build a new city scenery elevated by 1/2".
I loose four industries I do not like to serve due to it's inconvenient location, get space for a new urban scenery on a level base and the modification is reasonable in cost and effort if it is all torn down new year.
I have not made up my mind how to handle the three industries served by the foreground tracks (new, old or modified).

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