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Greetings from Bath!

Its amazing how flexible the loco is. Even before it gets broken on impact the thing is like a noodle.

So, I'm just coming back into active modeling and it seems like there's no track! I was going to work on my N-scale stuff but there's no atlas code 55. So I thought I'd work on an HO scale code 83 switcher to play with - no flex track. What's up?

I remember reading about someone who'd put a flywheel in a box car to allow flying drops. My have been a G&D trick.

Thanks, Byron. That's almost exactly the idea I was looking for. Time to do some doodling.

So, I'm getting back into the hobby after an absence during which we've rebuilt half our house and had a fire in our storage unit. I've given up my layout room for the time being because we've needed that space in our rental property. I'm currently without any layout at all, other than a...

What a fascinating collection of talents and abilities. I'm a criminal defense lawyer full-time, a recovering firefighter/EMT, and the navigator and tactician on an sailing racing program. I'm struck by the number of people whose work history is very diverse, which makes sense given the...

Hello. Where in Maine do you live? I'm in Brunswick. I do N, but there are a number of HO clubs, including Great Falls in Lewiston/Auburn.

What happened there?!?

Hi Jim, thanks for the input. I'm afraid to paint the glass because the lights are high intensity halogen and very hot. I'm actually planning to run suspended cable lighting over the layout itself with the idea that the suspended lighting is for layout use and the overhead is for work mode. I...

Started this morning with my layout room looking like this: By the end of the day, we had this: I'm super excited!

Among a set of rolling stock I just received are several very nice 74' centerbeams. They're perfect for the Maine based layout I'm scheming up but they're longer than anything else I'm planning to run. Does anyone have experience with these cars and have a sense of what a safe minimum...

I guess I thought that the staging would be open, over the ridge. You could look over it and recover trains or whatever. Bad idea? I haven't decided what I'd so with the large open area - town or industry or something. Lots of ideas, but haven't distilled it down. Logging operation on the...

Hi Jim, thanks for reading. This is N-gauge. Yes, thank you - I see the reverse loop. Was planning on using MRC's loop device to power the mill area. (Using MRC Prodigy DCC control). The track off to the right would run across the that wall to another scene. Don't plan to build that at...

Thank you to everyone who weighed in on my recent post about my Maine Central layout. I've decided that I'm biting off more than I can chew with that project and that it needs to percolate further. In the meantime, I'd like to build a smaller layout in my home. This layout should serve a...

gotcha. thanks! I'll work things around. Justin

Jim, I probably should have waited to finish the yard to post it but I was mostly thinking about the A/D options. The plan was to extend the topmost of the a/d tracks to the left and use that as the lead. That way the switcher need never be to the right of the cars being pushed into or pulled...

This is the beginning of the design for the junction yard. Its based, sort of, on the Brunswick, Maine yard. The hard opposing right angle turns to the left (North) are actually prototypical - but they're necessary to the design anyway. The tracks extending to northwest from the middle...

As far as the helix goes, I am not wedded to it if I can figure out how to pick up enough elevation otherwise. If the bottom level is at 40" and I want to pickup elevation on the second deck but still have operating feature on it, then I figure I want something like 18" railhead to railhead...

DaWolf - Thanks for the input. By outside viewblock I'm talking about what I've seen called a "Belladina Drop" in some press. The idea is that there is a backdrop inside the curve as normal, and a backdrop outside the curve. The inside of the outside curve is scenic as though it were the...