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Well here it is, my 4x8 layout, by special request.
The benchwork is a plan from the second edition of "Small Railroads You Can Build".
The track is The World's Greatest Hobby boxed track pack. I also put a second loop of regular old Atlas track around that. I'm in the middle of ballasting it-with sand. 
Oh and I also have an MRC Sound Station 312. It's advanced enough for me.
I really would like a new powerpack. Oh well.
That's right. I use ordinary light switches. They're cheap, available, and easy to use.
Everyone's got junk under their layout.
This is a Walthers brewery kit. It's the first building I built myself, and I kinda wish I hadn't smeared black paint all over it.
The second loop can be shut off from the main track, so I usually park a train there.
Just a road with some temporary signs and houses. I tried making grade crossings out of dry wall filler, and it worked okay.
I love to take pictures with the car and signal tower there.
An old Plasticville station, and the Sound Station 312 controller.
There's a freight depot and Woody the scrap wood guy in the background. This track is also seperate from the main line, so I usually put some sort of locomotive there.
Well that's my layout. While it's not big, fancy or sophisticated, it's good enough to run some trains with a bit of scenery around. 
Oh, and here's what I mean when I say that's my favourite location for photos.
    
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 1:46:58 PM
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Noce layout I cant wait till I get some time to build one for myself. I had one it was 8x6 but my mom sold her house and I had to take it down. Now all the train are scatered in my house and I dont think there is a room without trains in it except the bathrooms. Oh well I will post some pictures when I get them of the layouts me and my dad had. I am not much into weathering but the brewery looks good, the black paint wasnt noticiable till you said something...
Keep it going,
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 2:06:32 PM
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That's a pretty sick layout The light switches are a good idea...maybe thats what I should use. I noticed there are some CN passenger cars in the shot of the freight depot...Athearn?
-cheez
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 3:24:12 PM
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Thanks for the great comments so far.
I forgot to mention that the piping on the brewery are parts of sprues from the kit.
And Cheez, those CN cars are actually Rivarossi pieces. I picked up three for $30. And they use the European style loop couplers, although I put one horn-hook coupler on so I could run them with regular stock.
They have full interiors, and look great, even though I have a Warbonnet pulling them.
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 3:43:35 PM
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hi MM 1498,mchenry do couplings for your rivarossi,ken
http://www.mchenrycouplers.com/products.htm#KS-DR
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the one for 6 wheel trucks has shorter shank
Edited by - catfordken on August 26 2008 3:52:42 PM
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 Posted - August 26 2008 : 4:15:34 PM
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Nice start, cool layout... you're well on your way 
I also used the 2nd ed. of Small Railroads You Can Build for my own layout, the Saint Canard Midland. I actually used one of the different benchwork plans, coupled with the Red Wing Division track scheme.
You can see it here:
http://tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2473
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 6:13:30 PM
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| No shame in a small layout, mine's just big enough to run my rolling stock a few pieces at a time.
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Posted - August 26 2008 : 11:43:01 PM
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Hey MM,
Nice work on the layout! I see you use a few Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars/trucks here and there. Me Too. I don't count rivets so $1 for a vehicle beats $15 or more any day in my book.
Keep up the good work.
Mike
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Posted - August 27 2008 : 5:54:21 PM
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Yeah I find Hot Wheels trucks are okay, but the cars are a bit too big for my liking.
I think the trucks look okay because they have to fit in the same size package as the cars. So they'd be a smaller scale, assuming Hot Wheels even uses a certain scale.
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Posted - October 01 2008 : 12:41:34 AM
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| Your layout reminds me of some my cousin and i built when we were teens. I used light switches to power my streetlights for my roads and another switch for my lighted structures. Also used them for a side track power cut-off. You're having fun and that is what counts. You ahve plenty of room for growth!! Your "black" wash on the Walthers bldg looks good to me
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Posted - October 01 2008 : 7:17:51 PM
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Interesting use of light switches for a throttle. Could you use a light dimmer switch to control speed? Just a thought.
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Posted - October 01 2008 : 8:27:24 PM
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Actually the light switches are used to turn power on and off to different sections of track, I think they're called blocks or something like that.
Believe it or not, I had considered using a dimmer switch for a throttle...but I couldn't figure out how you would have forward and reverse control.
Also, I don't mind wiring up power for DC trains, but I do not want to mess around with an AC wall outlet.
Too dangerous an amount of power for me.
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