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 Posted - September 24 2009 : 11:16:22 PM
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In this weeks LotW a couple of you asked to see pics of my layout. It's a double track running the outside of the benchwork with a small oval running around the town. There's still some landscaping and detail work to do, but is it ever done?
I think Kitty Korner speaks for itself.
The mains and 2 sidings
The turntable and round house
The wrong side of the tracks
The good side of town
An amusement park for the towns people
Part of the main lines
Harley Davidson piggyback flat car
Monkeys are taking over Miranda's Bananas
This was a future staging area but this is the evil that lurks beneath the trains
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Posted - September 24 2009 : 11:27:03 PM
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All I can say is FANTASTIC!!!
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 12:29:27 AM
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| Thanks Mike !!
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 03:33:24 AM
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Nice Eaglerock! I wish I had somewhere to run my stuff. Looks like that will bring you many hours of enjoyment. What is the Chessie System SD-40 I see in the background. Is that and Athearn dash-2? or a strait 40 series?
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 Posted - September 25 2009 : 07:16:50 AM
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Love that amusement park, and the monkeys too! 
That's gotta be the fuzziest looking "evil" I've ever seen... 
    
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 07:34:50 AM
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| Looks AWESOME- great job!!!!
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 08:14:13 AM
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quote:Nice Eaglerock! I wish I had somewhere to run my stuff. Looks like that will bring you many hours of enjoyment. What is the Chessie System SD-40 I see in the background. Is that and Athearn dash-2? or a strait 40 series?
Originally posted by ILUVBUDWSR-September 25 2009: 03:33:24 AM
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Thanks for the kind words everyone, Iluvbudwsr, the Chessie at the roundhouse is a Broadway Limited Blueline. It's a -2, there is another Chessie SD40 in the middle display case that is an old Athearn blue box.
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 08:42:06 AM
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Everytime I look at it I see more stuff  Very nice Eaglerock thanks for sharing! I like how you have the different sections (like the good & bad side of the tracks). And to see someone put a FULL amusement park on their home layout is different also, nice touch.
Since your layout has just loops is it setup for DC? What about the turntable is that powered or nay? Ours is basically a spot of park engines that looks nice lol. Your layout is leaning towards how I would eventually like to build mine. Just do two or three loops with DC running the whole thing for the time being.
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 11:58:54 AM
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| hehe I loves Kitty Korner Did you make the decals or did you find them in a adult magazine? Also O.O DVD Player is gonna fall off the TV!! Needs more monkeys I remember one HO figure where the monkey has her top & lady is chasing after monkey bare breasted!
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 1:34:42 PM
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quote:Everytime I look at it I see more stuff Very nice Eaglerock thanks for sharing! I like how you have the different sections (like the good & bad side of the tracks). And to see someone put a FULL amusement park on their home layout is different also, nice touch.
Since your layout has just loops is it setup for DC? What about the turntable is that powered or nay? Ours is basically a spot of park engines that looks nice lol. Your layout is leaning towards how I would eventually like to build mine. Just do two or three loops with DC running the whole thing for the time being.
Originally posted by ChrisC-September 25 2009: 08:42:06 AM
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Chris, I'm running an MRC wireless DCC system. I also used MRC stationary decoders to operate the switches on the layout. The stationary decoders saved a lot of wiring. The inner loop around the good side of town was planned for dc so I can run my Tyco's. The turntable is powered, it's a Walthers. It was on the expensive side but it works great.
Microbusss Kitty Korner is a downtown deco kit. It comes with the all the signs for the building. The ladies out fromt and the bikes were figures I found at the LHS.
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 3:31:22 PM
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| Thanks for answering all of that. Again, your layout is already down the road where I would like mine to end up in a few years. I even sorta planned in my head if I did convert everything to DCC I would leave a DC track somewhere (or have some way to toggle the power supplies between DC & DCC). So seeing it on your layout was kinda funny.
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 6:36:56 PM
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Nice going Tom. The layout is very good. I like the amusement park, And that is a swell engine facility.
frank
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 7:57:30 PM
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Your layout looks awesome! Lots of stuff going on. I like the weathering you've done on the buildings in "the bad side of town". What did you use for that?
Thanks for posting the pics!
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 9:55:17 PM
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Thanks again for the comments guys. Cheez the buildings are from downtown deco. I painted them with box car red, then did a wash using the white paint (dry brushing) on the sides of them. There is raw umber details at the top close to the roofs. In between the red paint and the white I used fine sand paper to scuff the red paint. The kits from downtown deco come with all the signs to mount on the sides and front. The only one I added is the Greyhound sign.
Edited by - eaglerock109 on September 26 2009 6:03:52 PM
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Posted - September 25 2009 : 10:35:10 PM
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Hey, I just noticed that you have string-power lines as well. Very cool!
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 3:33:19 PM
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quote:Hey, I just noticed that you have string-power lines as well. Very cool!
Originally posted by MM 1498-September 25 2009: 10:35:10 PM
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Good eye Matt, it's black thread I picked up at Walmart. I tied/glued one end to the first pole, then strung it along the poles and glued the thread to the last pole. Some of the poles between the first and last needed a small drop of glue to help keep tension on the thread.
I called the cat under the layout evil because he's made a few trips to the top of the layout and broken the thread. He's been banished from the room unless I'm in there too.
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 4:16:24 PM
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Wow! I love it! Just wondering, in the third picture, is the blue building with the big tan somkestack a Walthers Cornerstone Tri-State Power Authority Kit? It is time to purchase structures for my layout, and that one was on my list. Would you reccommend it?
Thanks,
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 4:36:57 PM
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Nice pics. I hope to expand the STC to a similar size someday, but there's too many other issues competing for $ and time.
I like the amusement park... never have seen any of those actually installed on a layout before. Seems like they're far more intricate than they appear on the boxes and in ads. How much actual construction is required?
The monkeys are great! Nice arrangement of goodies in the cases, too.
Back in the day when I was living at home, we had a cat that used to love prowling the layout. But he was a minor deity compared to my younger siblings who destroyed it on more than one occasion...
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 5:55:33 PM
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Thanks Tony, the rides vary in ease of construction but there is nothing pre assembled. The majority of the rides are Faller, lots of parts. They can be temper mentle but usually run very well. When I built the rides I'd say it took the better part of a week for each ride. I wasn't moving to quick. The neices and nephews love the amusement park.
My old layout was 12' x 19', since we moved 4 years ago the layout shrunk. The old layout had many Tyco accessories, the operating forklift, culvert pipe unloader, etc. I probably could have layed this out better to incorporate them.
I also have a monorail that was arounf the amusement park on the old layout, still need to get that up and running.
Tom
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 6:08:17 PM
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quote:Wow! I love it! Just wondering, in the third picture, is the blue building with the big tan somkestack a Walthers Cornerstone Tri-State Power Authority Kit? It is time to purchase structures for my layout, and that one was on my list. Would you reccommend it?
Thanks,
Originally posted by Dorptrains-September 26 2009: 4:16:24 PM
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Good eye as well. You are correct. I would recommend this kit, it was easy to put together. It does take up a good foot print, about 20"x9". I added a smoke generator in the smoke stack to make it look like it's a working plant.
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 6:21:08 PM
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quote:| I also have a monorail that was arounf the amusement park on the old layout, still need to get that up and running. |
Who makes the monorail? I remember seeing some HO monorails listed on ebay a while back. They looked pretty cool.
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Posted - September 26 2009 : 6:32:22 PM
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quote:quote:| I also have a monorail that was arounf the amusement park on the old layout, still need to get that up and running. |
Who makes the monorail? I remember seeing some HO monorails listed on ebay a while back. They looked pretty cool.
Originally posted by DaCheez-September 26 2009: 6:21:08 PM
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ER Models is the manufacturer of the monorail. I used to work with a guy that had an in with their rep in north jersey. I think I got it for around $75. I can post a pic of it in it's box if you'd like.
Boy those were the days, we worked 5 miles from Mantua's New Jersey site. It was nice to go pick up parts at lunch and hit the factory sale every November.
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Posted - September 27 2009 : 1:22:00 PM
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| I wouldn't mind seeing some pics How does the power go from the track to the train?
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Posted - September 27 2009 : 3:32:53 PM
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quote:I wouldn't mind seeing some pics How does the power go from the track to the train?
Originally posted by DaCheez-September 27 2009: 1:22:00 PM
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Here's the set in the box. it includes the posts to elevate the track.
The track it rides on.
Here's the wire attachment to the underside of the track
Monorail on track.
Here's the underside of the monorail, it has pick up shoes similar to a slot car.
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Posted - September 28 2009 : 6:13:08 PM
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| That's really cool. I bet it adds alot of interest to the layout. I've wanted to incorporate one of those into my layout for a while now. The closest I have though is a Disney Monorail Playset. Nowhere near HO scale, but it does make a fun "around the tree" train at Xmas
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Posted - July 05 2020 : 3:45:22 PM
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Nice photos. Any updates?
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Posted - July 05 2020 : 3:51:43 PM
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Very impressive spread. Where is it now? Speaking of which,
DaCheez, last photo of your nifty Canadian layout was also
like in 2009, where you at??
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Posted - July 05 2020 : 3:54:27 PM
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quote:
Nice photos. Any updates?
Originally posted by wks - July 05 2020 : 3:45:22 PM
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That layout is now disassembled, divorced and moved 2X. I'm working on another layout now, a bit smaller. Similar double loop, same type of set up with nice town and the wrong side of the tracks. I suppose I'm not to imaginative lol.
I'll post a few pics when I have more finished.
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