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Re: New Plan - scubadude - 12-07-2014
Thanks Charlie...
Re: New Plan - scubadude - 01-11-2015
Another month gone by...the T & A hasn't progressed much, but the layout ro has...finally have adequate lighting in the room. I didn't want to hang lights from the ceiling, so I put up a 12'' wide shelf 18'' above the benchwork...then hung Home Depot 4' shop lights under the shelf and finished it out with a 6"" valance...makes the whole room look a little more finished, and a good place to stash my other stuff....
Re: New Plan - Charlie B - 01-12-2015
Richard, you have made great progress. The lighting looks great.
Charlie
Re: New Plan - Twist - 01-12-2015
HI,
progress on your layout and room is looking nice....
Cheers,Chris
Re: New Plan - BR60103 - 01-12-2015
Richard: Can you get a photo up under the valance so we can see how you did it?
Re: New Plan - scubadude - 01-13-2015
Sure David, it's pretty straight forward Home Depot stuff...I didn't want to hang lights from the ceiling, so I figured this was the best way...
I installed 6x8 metal shelving brackets along the walls and then just attached pine 1x12s along the walls. I left some small gaps on both sides of the room to allow cable access from underneath.
The lights are plugged into a 3-way extension cord laying on the top of the shelf and the other end of the cord is plugged into power strips under the workbench. I have 3 lights per power strip, giving me 2 on-off switches under the workbench instead of pulling 6 on-off chains...The extension cord dropping behind the layout will be behind the backdrop out of sight
The valance itself is 1/4 inch plywood with a nice walnut finished side cut into 6'' strips and glued and nailed around the front of the shelving. I finished it with some prefab molding I found in the garage and will finally stain to match later...
Re: New Plan - BR60103 - 01-13-2015
Thanks.
I wonder if I can get permission to add brackets to the wall ...
Re: New Plan - scubadude - 01-13-2015
If you'd like, I'll ask permission for you...
RE: New Plan - railandsail - 07-27-2019
(01-10-2014, 05:34 PM)scubadude Wrote: Here's an updated track plan...I didn't get a whole lot of feedback on the original posting, this updated version shows the EB and WB hidden interchange/staging. The intent is to have a place for the EB and WB thru freights to go and return from later. I did not intend to give so much space to a single sawmill, but the more I researched how they operated the bigger it got, but I think it will look cool when it's done...
So far my experience with trackplanning software has helped, but for me touching, feeling and moving around the track is better. The plan on paper translated pretty well to the benchwork, but I underestimated some clearances for scenery and buildings, etc so I will have to make some adjustments come scenery time. So just because if fits nicely on paper might mean your planned mountain will be more like a mole hill...
If y'all see anything I need to change, don't be bashful...at this stage I have all risers and foam roadbed down with track loosely in place. I seem to spend a lot of time just staring at it and imagining all the movements and can't stare anymore, so now you can stare.....unhock:
Next up: laying track and aligning and wiring those %^&*$#% tortoise switch machines...
Is there some reason I can not open up that image of his trackplan? I was reading thru this subject thread in hopes of seeing what others had done with their logging track plans
RE: New Plan - Charlie B - 07-27-2019
unfortunately these are some of the images lost in a crash several years ago.
Charlie
(07-27-2019, 08:35 AM)railandsail Wrote:(01-10-2014, 05:34 PM)scubadude Wrote: Here's an updated track plan...I didn't get a whole lot of feedback on the original posting, this updated version shows the EB and WB hidden interchange/staging. The intent is to have a place for the EB and WB thru freights to go and return from later. I did not intend to give so much space to a single sawmill, but the more I researched how they operated the bigger it got, but I think it will look cool when it's done...
So far my experience with trackplanning software has helped, but for me touching, feeling and moving around the track is better. The plan on paper translated pretty well to the benchwork, but I underestimated some clearances for scenery and buildings, etc so I will have to make some adjustments come scenery time. So just because if fits nicely on paper might mean your planned mountain will be more like a mole hill...
If y'all see anything I need to change, don't be bashful...at this stage I have all risers and foam roadbed down with track loosely in place. I seem to spend a lot of time just staring at it and imagining all the movements and can't stare anymore, so now you can stare.....
Next up: laying track and aligning and wiring those %^&*$#% tortoise switch machines...
Is there some reason I can not open up that image of his trackplan? I was reading thru this subject thread in hopes of seeing what others had done with their logging track plans