40' x 8' x 8' shipping container layout

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Jim at BSME said:
So just stumbled on your excellent thread, impressive speed of building.

I have a question about the seal tech rolled insulation, your state it is R-15, but the stuff that I find that indicates R value is only R-8. But I see this stuff comes in different thickness, how thick is yours?

Thanks,
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I think it was called 5 mm. The R-8 is 3mm I think. The really slick thing about it is there are very few joints, it is almost continuous coverage, there are no drafts.

I also cut mine up and used it for roadbed for the track on my mainline and a couple sidings. I stapled it to the waferboard, I think it really worked slick in that application as well. It was easy to cut and also took the ballast just fine. For curves, I cut a curve shape piece out of it.

Speed is not a factor here, you maybe noted I work full time and do have some other hobbies. I have a really good system resulting from this being my 5th layout, mistakes made, lessons learned.

Thanks for Commenting!!

Dave LASM
 
I added several buildings to the layout, made progress on some scenes, and cleaned up the train shed--

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I added the freight building. This time it is more visible.

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The scene on this side of the sawmill is done. (above)

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Here is a wider view. There wasn't enough room so I put a little extension on. I want to make sure no one drives off.

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I made a bunch of stumps out of twigs. There is a cutover area between the sawmill and the Kettle river.

Thats it for now--

Thanks for looking!! Dave LASM
 


Working around the other side of the layout, I got some of the ballasting and staged some of the buildings, you may recognize these from the last layout.

I have some engineering plans from the Northern Pacific and the ballast extended out 7.6' to 8.6' from the nearest rail. I will be doing prototype dimensions on a bulk of the mainline.

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Three of these buildings are from the Norther Pacific Railway Historical Association store, the one little shed for the switchman is a plastic kit.

Thanks for looking!! Dave LASM
 
bnsf971 said:
I'm pretty sure Groningen is a town in the Netherlands, so its US counterpart would likely have been founded by people from that area.
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Dutch. Interestingly, I am also of Dutch origin, as our family immigrated to America in 1643. Most of my blood is Swedish, however, according to more recent genealogies.

We just moved here in 2021, we fell in love with the landscape and a property was available while we were looking and ready to buy.

Timing is so much in life, and something we have very little control over.

This local was so named because that is the region the first settlers came from. The Lake Superior and Mississippi railway was completed in 1870, and was folded into the Northern Pacific around 1890. This is the route from St. Paul to Duluth. Groningen was one of the settlements that sprang up along the tracks. It was at the junction of the spur leading to one of the sandstone quarries established along the St. Croix river.

Thank you for your interest!!! Dave LASM
 
Gröningen is also a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Most Americans of the time would not have used the umlat over the 'o'. However, the town is much farther north than I imagined it would be. Multitudes of towns and villages in Baden-Württemburg have names that end in 'gen', with a hard 'g' as there is no soft 'g' in German.

Boblingen
Tübingen
Emmingen (where my family is from)
Liptingen
Ofterdingen
Reutlingen

Etc, etc, etc.
 


I spent several hours in the train shed, adding some details and moving forward with a new area. I decided to go to a hop-scotch method for completing the remainder of the layout.

Instead of going in one direction only, I am moving around to different areas and adding ground cover, ballast, and buildings as I feel like. I think about 1/4 of the layout has been "completed" (other than the backdrop, which will be re-worked when the weather permits).

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You may recognize these buildings. The mainline has the nice ballast job and the spur has the worn out gravel, like the photographs depict

This is part of the Wyoming townsite (above)

Below - adding some trucks to this scene makes it look like something is happening


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I added some detail to the engine shed at the quarry:

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Thanks for looking! Dave LASM
 
Train tour of the layout, NP321 "races" around the layout, checking out the progress. I didn't realize how fast I was going, I guess the track work on the mainline is OK.



You will see my new trees and a couple new areas. Next time I will travel a little slower

Thanks for looking! Dave LASM
 
logandsawman said:
Train tour of the layout, NP321 "races" around the layout, checking out the progress. I didn't realize how fast I was going, I guess the track work on the mainline is OK.



You will see my new trees and a couple new areas. Next time I will travel a little slower

Thanks for looking! Dave LASM
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Impressive! You've made a lot of progress, it all looks great! I especially like the quarry area, it makes for quite an interesting scene.
 


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