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Hello everyone this is my home layout that I started building
the day after I moved in. Right now It's a 4x8 with 2 30 inch x 8 foot extension's. I will post some more when I get home .
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 Posted - September 20 2019 : 7:15:56 PM
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Nice photo of the station and cars. Look forward to more.
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Posted - September 20 2019 : 7:44:21 PM
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quote:Hello everyone this is my home layout that I started building
the day after I moved in. Right now It's a 4x8 with 2 30 inch x 8 foot extension's. I will post some more when I get home .
Originally posted by Bamos - September 20 2019 : 2:59:02 PM
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Wow, that station is beautiful, is it scratch built? I would like to see some more pictures.
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Posted - September 20 2019 : 9:48:22 PM
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Awesome
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Posted - September 20 2019 : 9:50:36 PM
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Very nice!
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Posted - September 20 2019 : 10:02:32 PM
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Cool!
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quote: quote:Hello everyone this is my home layout that I started building
the day after I moved in. Right now It's a 4x8 with 2 30 inch x 8 foot extension's. I will post some more when I get home .
Originally posted by Bamos - September 20 2019 : 2:59:02 PM
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Wow, that station is beautiful, is it scratch built? I would like to see some more pictures.
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Thanks Srenchin. The station is actually a Bachmann Plasticville Station with some Tichey windows and some added styrene to cover up the chunky platform. The lights are from the Dollar Tree.
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Thanks Everyone for the nice comments. This is the first layout I've started since my childhood layout that I
built in my parents basement 30 some years ago. It Layout started with a modified Madison Central 4 X 8
layout from the Worlds Greatest Hobby Layout built at Trainfest.
This is the current track plan for the layout I'm not a prototype modeler but i do wish to be able to operate
the layout in the future.
the top part will be staging and industries.
The 4 X 8 will be the main line for now.
And the bottom is to be a stub yard, engine servicing and car shops.
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Posted - September 22 2019 : 1:03:33 PM
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is it me or does that former siding go into the motel pool? 
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quote:is it me or does that former siding go into the motel pool?
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It was a siding that i was having derailment issues with so i removed it from service. I did not want to repaint the whole street.
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Posted - September 22 2019 : 3:32:46 PM
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Most intricate yard, very nice. I, too, am not a prototype modeler. In fact, I drive some
of my acquaintances a little buggy because of it. One fellow, Srenchin, has done
some astonishing work taking Plain Jane Tyco 50's and turning them into masterpieces.
I greatly enjoy seeing the CVN and look forward to seeing more. It is a most unique
track plan.
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Been working on the town of Clover Valley this Weekend.
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Posted - September 22 2019 : 6:48:39 PM
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Good DIY vid, thank you. Inspires me to get off the stick and do
some more stuff myself. I would love to see a video of your train(s)
in action.
BTW, I finally spotted the abandoned siding that goes into the
swimming pool that Busss mentioned. I used to live in this
little Permian Basin town that was once a flourishing canteloupe
and onion growing and distribution center, and there were
abandoned tracks all over the place, like a maze. I find that
little scene of the tracks leading up to a pool to be delightful-
please don't "fix" it!!
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Posted - September 22 2019 : 8:40:43 PM
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quote: quote:is it me or does that former siding go into the motel pool?
Originally posted by microbusss - September 22 2019 : 1:03:33 PM
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It was a siding that i was having derailment issues with so i removed it from service. I did not want to repaint the whole street.
Originally posted by Bamos - September 22 2019 : 2:13:56 PM
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you could do what some cities do
asphalt over the rails!
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Posted - September 22 2019 : 11:33:10 PM
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Great update video - your layout is coming together nicely! Good work!
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Posted - September 23 2019 : 12:40:34 AM
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The abandoned siding left in the street has an interesting purpose in the prototype world. If a track is abandoned and the railroad crossing is removed, and then the railroad wants to rebuild and use that track again, they have to start from scratch getting the right of way to cross the road. If the track is left in the street, the right of way still belongs to the railroad and they have kept their options open.
Of course in this case, the railroad would probably need to do an environmental impact study with the Army Corps of Engineers in order to build a trestle across a waterway like the motel swimming pool.
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Some new updates I put some plaster cloth and rock castings on the base for Hilltop Manufacturing .
Made a fence for the hobby shop and added some residential buildings.
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Posted - September 24 2019 : 12:15:03 AM
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Nice, I am grooving on the clothesline. Those details really make
a scene. Like the fence shot, it frames the scene. Is that a
surf board in the back?
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Yes the car is a custom McDonalds Hot Wheels "Surfboarder" casting, the surfboards had a post that held the car together.
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Posted - September 24 2019 : 11:52:00 PM
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Enjoy your updates.
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Posted - September 25 2019 : 09:14:51 AM
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Nice layout. It looks like you're having fun.
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Posted - September 25 2019 : 11:10:35 AM
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| Nicely done and excellent workmanship! Please post more photos when you can.
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Thanks for all the nice comments everyone.
Last weekend I painted the rock wall a started some basic scenery on the spot where Hilltop Manufacturing will go. Then last night I painted the building.
It came out so nice I may use it as an online industry somewhere else.
I have a Bates Mansion in my stash. I'll see if it fits later
Also found a DPM kit 75 percent an could not resist starting building the
I'm going to kit bash it into a back ground building.
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Posted - September 26 2019 : 7:02:56 PM
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Nice work, and quite the attention to detail!!
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Posted - September 27 2019 : 03:25:36 AM
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I like the portico, nice touch! An abundance
Of low relief buildings, most ingenious.
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I want to thank everyone for the nice comments. I'm back working on the railroad again and i'm not sure
about what to do about Hilltop. I threw together the Bates Mansion to see how it fits in the location but it seems to big to me.
While I was pondering the Hilltop area I did some scenery.
Finally I worked on some of the wiring for the lighting . It's noy pretty but i will clean it up later.
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Posted - October 19 2019 : 3:30:31 PM
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Incredible work, Bamos!!
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Posted - October 19 2019 : 9:17:56 PM
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| Great looking railroad! Thanks for posting - hope to see more of it soon!
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Posted - October 19 2019 : 10:27:28 PM
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Nice layout!
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Thanks everyone.
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Posted - October 20 2019 : 6:29:47 PM
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Great stuff! Love the back scenes. Most folks don't
model the back side of places, and this is an interesting
view. Those cast shadows are terrific. I am curious
to see what you do with the Bates mansion. To me
it looks perfectly adequate, and the stair case is a
nice touch, but we'll see how you spin this.
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Posted - October 20 2019 : 10:05:19 PM
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is that the new colors for the Roadside Inn depot?
cause I still have the old one in HoJo colors 
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Hello everyone I've been busy with work and didn't have much modeling time until a couple weeks ago.
First I started working on cleaning up the layout and my worbench . They were both unusable full of half done projects new purchases.
I originally had the layout wired as one large block with some parts electrically dead. So I used my 2 week layoff to divide the layout into
7 blocks so far with more to do. Now I can run more than one train at a time.
Once I fixed the layout wiring and ran some trains I found that moving the train from the main to the inner loop required walking around the layout to switch my manual switch stands so I replaced them with some vintage ATLAS remote machines.
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Posted - January 01 2020 : 08:23:10 AM
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Wow! I didn't realize it was that big!
Can't wait to see more!
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Posted - January 01 2020 : 7:59:24 PM
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Your layout is really coming together!
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Posted - January 02 2020 : 7:15:02 PM
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| Wow! Great layout! Keep us posted
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Thank you for the comments everyone. I have been working on my BOTW
taking the whole thing apart and sanding down the glue joints it still smells like Testors orange scented cement around my worbench.
Starting reassembly.
And almost done.
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And a video of some of my progress.
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Posted - January 08 2020 : 5:31:36 PM
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Cheers to TheBrickLab. Very evocative lighting and imagery.
Reminds me of an old fashioned planetarium. Look forward
to seeing more. Great work on that 7-11.
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Great video! Nice progress - love the lighting work!! Keep up the good work on the 7-11 as well.
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Posted - January 09 2020 : 09:53:53 AM
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| Amazing layout and great scenery technique. I look forward to seeing more of your photos.
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I didn't realize it had been so long since I updated this thread. Thanks everyone for all the nice comments. Things were busy at work untill one of my coworker's came down with covid19. After that I decided to use up my
vacation time. So I've been home working on the layout finishing some long overdue projects and staring some new ones. One of those was the restaurant from building of the week.
I finished the furniture factory for the most part it stil needs sign's and some other details.
And I started on a Walthers kit that I'm going to kitbash in some what represents a forging house my dad work at for
23 years.
  
Well that's it for now everyone stay safe.
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I hope your coworker is ok, that building looks great! 
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Posted - April 24 2020 : 12:30:30 PM
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Love the work! Hope your coworker gets better soon.
I really love the LL supermarket and the use of matchbox/hot wheels!
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Right now no one knows which one of the people they sent home is the
one who tested positive. I'll find out when I go back next Friday .
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Well its been a while since I updated this but i have done some work.
I did the assembly and painting on the forging house.
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Posted - June 07 2020 : 11:47:08 PM
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Bam-Bam I never tire of looking at this remarkable layout and its
incorporated end to end and amazing visuals.
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| The weathering looks fantastic!
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Posted - June 08 2020 : 4:19:31 PM
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In some shots it is hard to tell whether that is a real building or a model. Incredible work!
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I would like to say thanks to everyone for the nice compliments. When modeling I tend to jump around the layout
working on something then letting it sit for a while to think about what I want to do next. I want to do an interior
on the forging house so I've moved on to another part of the layout.
It's a junction between what will be the outer loop and the loop on the 4x8 so being a junction I thought it needed
a signal tower. Its a 1959 Revell.
This is the before.
and after
And some with the lights on
And the truck started as a well worn Matchbox
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