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 Posted - May 29 2010 : 9:14:15 PM
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I dug out an old piece of N-scale layout I'd built during high school to test some scenery ideas and expand my tiny N-scale loop layout, but the pressure of homework left it abandoned to the ravages of the garage. I'm going to spend the summer refurbishing it into another portable mini-layout, for my newly-built HOn30 narrow gauge trains.
Here's the overview:
A mine will go at the far left end, with two levels utilizing both levels of track. The right side with the damaged track will be a station and town area, with a water tank between the diverging upper and lower level tracks.
This view is of the mine area, lengthwise down the layout:
It turns out most of the track will have to be relaid...the upper level has a kink that makes everything derail going downhill, and the two lower level tracks need their spacing widened to accommodate HO scale narrow gauge rolling stock.
This is a close-up of the main scenic feature, the bridge over the lower tracks:
The trestle piers will have to go (#7 is stuck between them in this pic), replaced by a truss bridge of some kind, and the gap between the cliffs will need to be widened slightly. Other than that, it will remain largely the same, rock spires and all. The spires might get larger to compensate for the scale change so they stay the tallest point on the layout and don't get dwarfed by the mine and the trains.
The foam base of the layout has a crack near the damaged track that makes it sag, so a thin plywood base under the foam is the first order of business. Then, relaying track!
--Rio Grande--Thru the Rockies
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Posted - May 29 2010 : 9:26:01 PM
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Here are some pics of some of the buildings I plan on using, an IHC cannery-turned-mine and a Rio Grande narrow gauge water tank with double spouts I just finished scratchbuilding using a plastic water tank out of the junk box.
The upper level hill will be behind the tracks in this pic, with the overhead bridge connecting to a scratchbuilt upper mine building of some kind:
The water tank is awaiting an order of detail parts for the spouts (I'd make them from leftover pieces from kits, but it turned out nice enough I decided it needed more detail than I could make):
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