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This year, or all the trains except the two original Varney Supers go...
So here's my plan... any comments? It's to be simple and allow a continuous run later... it's obviously a shoreline rail interface and it's a straightening of an existing design by Ian Rice
I haven't figured length but 8' would be minimum, 12 likely max?
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Posted - January 13 2011 : 12:12:48 AM
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I love shore line scenes ... what will the year be?
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Posted - January 13 2011 : 12:15:23 AM
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The plan is to "age' it from from about 1930 up to 1967 and Canadian Confederation...
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Posted - January 13 2011 : 12:36:25 AM
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Nice .. I'll be interested to see how you progress. I'm going smaller as well, since I no longer have the space for a dedicated train room.
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Posted - January 13 2011 : 12:44:03 AM
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I've been collecting for years. This is a "fish or cut bait" thing for me! The trains I have have no use if I don't use them!
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Posted - January 18 2011 : 04:37:12 AM
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Wow all those looks and only one guy responding. Thats disappointing. I reckon it makes sense. People are more interested in acquisition of things than building. Oh well.
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Posted - January 18 2011 : 06:46:49 AM
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quote:Wow all those looks and only one guy responding. Thats disappointing. I reckon it makes sense. People are more interested in acquisition of things than building. Oh well.
See ya guys.
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Originally posted by romcat - January 18 2011 : 04:37:12 AM
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Well, for most of us, having ANY kind of layout is a dream, with limited space. My entire operating trackage is on an oval on a 48" square board above my stairwell. Yes, right now, acquisitions keep me interested in model railroading...without that, there'd probably be no interest from me even thinking about trains. Much like the 9 Gremlins I own awaiting repairs and resto - I dream someday of getting to it. At least you have a spot for something larger than an oval. My Rafter Railroad concept might still work, but I have a LOT of basement clean-out to do.
As for your concept, it looks like it has a rich texture of operational possibilities with the shoreline interface to allow further railroad-related activities. And leaving open the possibility of expanding it later is smart, too. Obviously not much room for a coal-loading area, with the huge yards and dumps required, but that's ok. Plenty of other maritime activity can be done with trains. Might could even work in a single US-1 Tyco truck dump of some kind.  Single drive through lane and terminal. But I like what you did with the idea in a limited space.
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Posted - January 18 2011 : 06:48:55 AM
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| My knowledge of layout building is very minimal. I guess I do not understand what is actual track on you drawing. Is this only one shoreline run or edge of your layout?
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Posted - January 19 2011 : 4:21:38 PM
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quote:Wow all those looks and only one guy responding. Thats disappointing. I reckon it makes sense. People are more interested in acquisition of things than building. Oh well.
See ya guys.
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Originally posted by romcat - January 18 2011 : 04:37:12 AM
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If I had something useful and intelligent to say I would have. My layout building skills are just about nil, as I have never built anything larger than a 16"x16" diorama. Looks like an interesting project and you've planned for it's growth. Build it-- fill this thread with progress pictures.
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Posted - January 19 2011 : 8:45:31 PM
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quote:My knowledge of layout building is very minimal. I guess I do not understand what is actual track on you drawing. Is this only one shoreline run or edge of your layout?
Originally posted by Jeepman - January 18 2011 : 06:48:55 AM
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The tracks are the single dark lines running in sine waves across the drawing. Maps usually draw railroads with a single line and crosshatches every so often - he left off crosshatches. You really can't draw TWO rails in a small drawing. plus ties. Just look at the dark lines and that is his trackage.
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Posted - January 19 2011 : 10:00:03 PM
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| I learn something new every day on this site. Is this just one section of his layout?
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Posted - January 20 2011 : 12:34:19 AM
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It will likely be 3, 4'x2' modules for ease of movement. 90deg off the right side I may build a classification yar or storage. Yeah thats the whole thing for now the idea being to build something anything to operate on...
Hope that helps! Will it be DCC I dont' know... I have 2 Bowser C-640's coming w/DCC so probably. Need to still run a few vintage things though so...
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Posted - January 20 2011 : 07:13:30 AM
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quote:It will likely be 3, 4'x2' modules .. the idea being to build something anything to operate on...
Will it be DCC I dont' know... probably.
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Originally posted by romcat - January 20 2011 : 12:34:19 AM
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I, too, am toying with using the Modular technique plus the Freemo concept to do something similar if I wanted to have a simple home layout, yet could have it knocked down for space useage. My local club started as Modular 2x4 and still does shows, so it's something to think about. So far, that's ALL I've done, until I clean out my horrendous basement storage enough to have some open space ( HA! ), I can't begin to use the modules I already have. Some day...
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Posted - January 21 2011 : 09:20:10 AM
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[quote]Wow all those looks and only one guy responding. Thats disappointing. I reckon it makes sense. People are more interested in acquisition of things than building. Oh well.
there are builders, operators, collectors, and like you the building is the fun part and where i need in-put
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Posted - January 21 2011 : 12:57:08 PM
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quote:
there are builders, operators, collectors, and like you the building is the fun part and where i need in-put
Originally posted by derfberger - January 21 2011 : 09:20:10 AM
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At least the Tyco Forum isn't as narcissitic/neurotic as a certain TT gauge Yahoo group is - the Moderator has BANNED all "collectors" from joining, ie in other words you better be actually building AND operating a TT gauge layout, or you're nothing. He started a 2nd group after he didn't like the first one, which finally collapsed after a lack of constant input. ANd I don't think I"m active enough in TT to belong to this new group anyway. I"m more collecting and operating now than building, but before you can BUILD, don't you have to find track, operating stock,etc. by COLLECTING? Crazy. But it takes all types. If not for collectors, who'd know the differences between a rare reverse-color painted Bicentennial caboose and the others? I appreciate all types of train aficianados . I have done some scenery on a second-hand HO module I got, and I need to finish the 2nd one like it. I'm just more the mechanically inclined type, with some artisitry thrown in, than the build-in-miniature type (yet) I showed some promise during our club's scenic sessions with rock-making, so I know I can do it. It's just time and lack of space right now. All in time...
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Posted - January 21 2011 : 11:02:48 PM
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Hey Jerry:
For me it's just a matter of fish or cut bait. Time to build or move on. I have just come to realize that the urge to collect is no longer for me a healthy urge. There's no creation in it. I'm trying to nudge myself along is all. Maybe for people with different balances in their lives collecting is satisfying. I hope so.
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Posted - January 29 2011 : 8:30:40 PM
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Hey Gareth, any progress on this layout?
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Posted - January 30 2011 : 11:53:26 AM
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Nope, I have to meet with a buddy of mine... and i have to unpack my apt., put things a way to make space...
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Posted - January 30 2011 : 3:18:53 PM
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Good to see you're becoming more active again. I think it would be a great idea for you to build that. It certainly would keep you busy for a while. I think port scenes take a great deal of work to create. There's plenty of opportunity for detail and a great variety of techniques you'll have to engage in.
The design itself looks great, plenty of action and an easy way to expand for the future as you mentioned.
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Posted - January 30 2011 : 4:25:26 PM
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Hey Gareth. Based on your sketch and description, I'd say you've got a fun build waiting for you  Lately I've been finding building, detailing, painting, etc..., a lot more fun than collecting trains to run. Trains look so much better when they have a nice looking miniature world to run in. I can't wait to see how your shoreline turns out 
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Posted - January 31 2011 : 4:10:38 PM
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i sure envy these people with artistic talent who can make scenery look life like.
Hard as i try my green saw dust looks like green saw dust, my tufts of grass look like tufts of hair, my fake painted fur was a waste of time, and the back drops something done by a kindergarten class.
I drool when i go to a lay out and just stand there and take in the dioramas. It's like i become part of the scene
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Posted - January 31 2011 : 4:25:59 PM
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apart from shaygetz,my favourite guy for detailing layouts to make em lifelike is ken patterson see link,i wish i was half as good as him,but i suppose having one of his locos should console me ken
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