After more then 1 year, my 23" X 11" switching layout is almost finished lol.
My bridge intersects both left and back backdrop and I wanted to hide both ends where the bridge intersects the backdrops.
I built a brick structure to hide the left side intersection, but I don't know what to use for hiding the back end of the bridge.
Any suggestion is welcome.

Jacques

The last two pics that I posted seem to be big. You have to scroll up and down to see the whole thing.
Is it because the two pics I posted were reposts?

I'm helping a grandson with his HO layout. We have a question. When laying Atlas flex track on curves is there a preferred way to bend it? Should the movable rail be on the inside or outside of the curve? The last time I laid HO flex track it was made with fiber tie strip, so it's been a while.

I did a search and didn't find anything on this subject.

Thanks,

Hello Everyone---I was going through my desk recently and came across a file filled with old negatives.My good friend Doctor Wayne suggested I bring them to his house so he could scan them and put them on a disc---what a surprise,some of these shots are almost 20 years old---here's a few from a vacation to British Columbia---hope you enjoy---thanks Doc

I wanted to post on my Miami thread on the layout forum, but all the "edit", "quote", and "post reply" buttons are gone. I checked the other threads on the layout forum and the problem occurs on all the other threads as well. Outside the layout forum everything is working perfectly. Is it just me, or is it the forum?????

Hi All,

After making a photobox in N scale i made one up for my HO locos to keep a photographic record , made from offcuts of wood and WS rockmolds with a curved track it takes up little space 2ftX 1FT X 1FT high stored under the bench ....... here is the first lot of pictures an SD40 N&S working hard to clear a path through.

The wife and I picked up the Walthers Machine shop, both in HO and N scale, hers being N and mine in HO. We had a blast since this was her first building and it was the same I was making.
Hers:







His:







She is done, however I am still working on mine

Val (Spitfire) is about to embark on constructing a steel mill from the Walther's collection and I know its going to be great! Some discussion of modeled mills prompts me to post these so I can link them to her thread without taking too much away from its original theme.

I built this mill a few years ago using cheap materials such as shampoo bottles, cardboard boxes, and corrugated craft paper. Had I known a little (or a lot!) more about steel mill operations I'd have constructed it differently with more realistic operations in mind. As it is I have a small yard in the complex that I call the "holding yard" where anything steel related such as coal hoppers, gondolas loaded with scrap metal, and coil cars can be set out or picked up. I pretend that the real switching of bottle cars, slag cars, hoppers and ore cars for the furnace, etc is done "off layout".

Here's what I've come to call my impression of a steel mill, an ersatz collection of structures that some day I'll probably re-do.

This area is just a backdrop scene..


Closer now to the holding yard...


The furnace is visible in the background...


The holding yard that can also include boxcars for Kings Port Steel Supply...a vague facility that accepts deliveries for any materials that may support the industry via boxcar. I added this building because I had more boxcars than destinations for them. The brick building to the right is Canton Box Company.


Ralph

Any one know the mesurements for the walthers rural grain elevator in feet for ho scale?

Pat,
In the area for avatar,joined date etc.. Is it possible to move the "start of line ?" a couple of spaces to the left, to create a larger divide between that information, and the "start of line" of the posted text? There appears to be only one character space between, right now, and there seems to be room to the left that could be used. Kind of like adjusting margins in print preview?
Pete