A friend who shall remain nameless was harassed while taking photos of trains working a local power plant.
He was on a public highway.
These pertain to the U. S. and it might be smart to print a couple of copies to carry with you in case it happens to you.
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There are some folks that get carried away when a uniform is worn. Barney Fife comes to mind.
Charlie

Deano!!! i just saw a couple posts of yours today!!! Man have we missed you!!! Hope all is going okay

How have you been???? Busy id imagine. Hows dad and the rest of the family doing? Any Layout Progress on yours or Dads lately?

We all hope to see you around more often stranger Hope your sticking around this time

Okay, so My layout isnt working the way I want, and to save money and some space, Ive been thinking of taking apart the layout and rebuilding (by reusing as much as possible) and making a smaller more fitting layout than my 20' by 10' attempt at an HO scale DMIR layout. But the idea is smaller, and smaller wouldnt be good for my 6 axle tunnel motors, so now Im also looking at new locos, not to mention some new structures, and more rolling stock that doesnt consist of only ore cars. Now my money saving ideas dont work so well.

So Im thinking of more of a narrow along the wall style shelf layout. Maybe two levels,one level could be a yard/oredock, and the other a taconite yard built into a reverse/return loop on the top. Im thinking there is potential for a nice lone strech of mainline for between the two. Im just wondering if anybody could possibly draw up some ideas for me as Im having some issues figureing it out. I dont have exact measurements, but here is something close.

Thanks guys, Id really appreciate some ideas to work off of.

...well, actually from the northern part of Illinois, which is still south of where I live in southern Ontario.
As some of you have seen elsewhere on the Forum, I recently visited the Illinois Railway Museum, a large site with lots to see and do. If you get the chance, visit it in person - you'll surely enjoy it. However, if you want to have a really great time, see it with someone who really knows the place - I was very fortunate to hook-up with a couple of good friends who showed me around. Here's a shot of all three of us - I call it Three Amigos, but a bystander quipped that we looked more like The Three Stooges. Larry is on the left, and I'll leave it up to you to decide the identities of Moe and Curly:


I saw lots of stuff new to me, including this CB&Q SD24, on which the paint was barely dry:


A Milwaukee Road dynamometer car:


A Milwaukee Road Northern, under power (well, okay, electric power):


One of my favourite steam-era heralds, in mosaic tile, no less:


We rode Ceres, the diner of the Nebraska Zephyr, behind an E5 (we were all dying for a coffee, but when I looked in the galley, the chef was nowhere to be seen):


I learned that Burlington Northern was unable to take advantage of Kadee's close-coupling for Stewart F-units, and had to improvise for their "Executive Fs":


You'd be forgiven for thinking that I'd strayed even farther south, but this SP "Cadillac" is far from its Los Angeles base - the lovingly applied weathering gives it a real "in-service" appearance, though


I also thought that I'd found romance, but we were unable to load this lovely lady into the trunk of my Mazda:


Another shot of The Three Amigos:


On the way home, I stopped at Owosso, Michigan, site of Railfest 2009 later this week. Unfortunately, the place was locked-up, with only a glimpse of PM 1225 available. I did see, though, through the fence, this restored F-unit lettered for the Cincinatti, New Orleans & Texas Pacific - Southern's famed "Rathole" Division.


All-in-all, a great (if too-short) trip, made even better in the company of friends - thanks Deano and Larry! As someone once said: "I'll be back!".

Wayne

I saw your answer to foulrift in his thread ( <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1592">viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1592</a><!-- l --> ) about doubling your industries, but didn't want to steal his thread.
So, how does that work?
Thanks.
P.S. I hope this is the right place for this.

Loren

Congratulations, we've got some winners to announce.

For the "Going Somewhere Scale" contest, we have the following:

• 1st place - Selector
  2nd place - cn nutbar
  3rd place - shaygetz and Steamtrains (tie)

• 1st place - Trains Winnipeg
  2nd place - Selector
  3rd place - jbaakko and ezdays (tie)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL.

...which isn't the same thing as an eye test.
Evidently, some folks, especially those on dial-up, are having trouble viewing pictures on Big Blue. Below are four photos from various sources - if there are any that you can't see, please answer here to let me know which ones and if you're on dial-up.

The first one is from photobucket:


This one is a thumbnail from photobucket:


One from our own Gallery:
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And finally, an attachment:    

Thanks for your input.

Wayne

I have a small 3x5' layout that I've been working on (I've posted about this layout here earlier this year).

The layout is coming along very nicely now and working really well. It has two loops of track which are connected, an outer loop (using 18”R curves) and an inner loop (using 15”R curves). There is one siding on the outside edge of the layout as well as some sidings — basically an Inglenook arrangement — inside the inner loop.

I’m now thinking of adding a small fiddle yard in the next little while. I would simply add an extra 12” to 18” onto one end of the layout. I would set up 2 to 3 storage sidings where various trains (i.e. "actors") could wait when they’re not “on-stage," on the layout.

I’ve never used a fiddle yard before on my layouts, partly due to lack of space. I also have a larger 4x6’ layout but it has never had a fiddle yard as well. I’m just beginning to understand the benefits of having a fiddle yard and was wondering if anyone could offer any suggestions or feedback.

I’ll try to post some updated pics in due course as well.

Rob

Hi guys,

Ive been thinking about my plans for the Modesto & Empire Traction Company. I have it hanging on my closet door, so everytime i open my closet or walk out of my room, i see it hanging, waiting for some more work.... Ive been thinking alot, and i really want to condense it somewhat. Currently, i have it set up in somewhat of a Free-Mo setup, with 35 modules which would occupy a space of 40'x30' if they were all set up together. Of coarse, i did not plan to set them up all at once anyways, and rather just run a few at a time....

Now im thinking of trying to setup this plan to be partial layout, and partial modules. I have always wanted to take a few modules to a train show, set them up with a group, and run them and watch people look at my work. I had planed to do this with my original M&ET plans, and i still want to be able to take a few modules with me to a train show here and there, so i will have to keep that in mind.

My plans for this re-design on this M&ET layout would be to have a double decker layout, with a helix connecting the 2 levels. Now since the M&ET is a shortline railroad, and they only have switchers (the newest ones being 2 Gensets #2000 and 2001 which arrived in December of 2008) this would mean i could keep the helix radius down to a fairly small radius of 22". It does not have to be large, nor does it have to look good with a train going up or down, because it will not be seen.


Here is the original plans for the M&ET i came up with after spending 2 months working from Google Earth, Live Maps, and Google Maps Street View. This first pic is a shot showing the overall design, zoomed out

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