08-02-2010, 12:26 PM
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Here's your first look at the first track layed on the bonus room shelf layout. This is the staging 'yard' (both tracks) and 'sneakback' mainline out of staging. Three pieces of ocde 83 flex + a #6 left turnout = 10' of trackage.
The first train is my Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-0, a DG&H reefer, an N&W two-bay hopper (with coal) and Maggie, the drover's caboose. This is by no means a standard consist, but these cars would be included in one. When the sidings are at full length capacity should be an engine like this one, 5-6 40' cars and a caboose.
I have installed a blue point turnout control beneath the layout (picture to come) but need to do some ciphering before I can install the throw rod & control. Again, this is something special I'm cooking up...more to come as it progresses.
I have been running the short train in and out of staging occasionally since I got track down the other night. Last night my wife and I carried this section of the layout upstairs and I leveled it with shims.
NEXT - I have the other side of the room layout section on the sawhorses in the garage. I still need to bolt the sections together and finish the subroadbed before I can cut roadbed and lay track. Once that side is completed (just the line up to Pinto) I'll turn my attention to the wall-side 'bridge' section in between. I've also been working on a way of securing the track at the ends of each section. Pictures to follow on that too.
Galen
Here's your first look at the first track layed on the bonus room shelf layout. This is the staging 'yard' (both tracks) and 'sneakback' mainline out of staging. Three pieces of ocde 83 flex + a #6 left turnout = 10' of trackage.
The first train is my Bachmann Spectrum 4-6-0, a DG&H reefer, an N&W two-bay hopper (with coal) and Maggie, the drover's caboose. This is by no means a standard consist, but these cars would be included in one. When the sidings are at full length capacity should be an engine like this one, 5-6 40' cars and a caboose.
I have installed a blue point turnout control beneath the layout (picture to come) but need to do some ciphering before I can install the throw rod & control. Again, this is something special I'm cooking up...more to come as it progresses.
I have been running the short train in and out of staging occasionally since I got track down the other night. Last night my wife and I carried this section of the layout upstairs and I leveled it with shims.
NEXT - I have the other side of the room layout section on the sawhorses in the garage. I still need to bolt the sections together and finish the subroadbed before I can cut roadbed and lay track. Once that side is completed (just the line up to Pinto) I'll turn my attention to the wall-side 'bridge' section in between. I've also been working on a way of securing the track at the ends of each section. Pictures to follow on that too.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!