Hi there,
last year I started with the construction of my modelrailroad in the basment of our house.I made some plans but have found out that this is not my way to build the layout....I used the plans and drawings as a starting point.
I wanted to build a canadian based layout and went deeper to the British Columbia Railway stuff...bought some DVD´s,a book about BCrail and searched the net for infos.
The first room is about 12x12 feet and the aditional room is about 19x5 feet.I wanted an layout along the walls.Benchwork in the long room is 18 inch wide and the rest will be mostly the same except the side below the window.It´s 24 inch with an peninsula on the ohter side...or better let my say today after some rebuilds it goes that way.
Here are some pictures as it started out last year
As you can see there were some cabinets hanging on the wall and also a lot of other modelling things around when I started the construction...After I have cleaned it out it looked like that
I started with some basic scenery,build some houses laid track and wired it and let run some trains....nice,okay...but something seemd wrong in my mind....so to make a long story short I decided ti rip of some parts of the layout and rebuild it.I decided to build a part of the Dawson Creek subdivison of British Columbia Railway,not prototypical but more freelanced,with it´s grainelevators etc...Also I decided to build a second level to a part of the layout and to make an addition to the next room of the basment.So here is a small tour starting on the additional room with an liftout to the entrance door from the garden.
Left to the door I´ll make a hole to the wall to enter a staging to the left into another room.
Computer and workbench.
a little townscene with a passing siding
The station will be changed to a more typical and smaller station
some residental homes
The house with the blue trim will be also changed to an Bungalow from American Modelbuilders I recently bought
to the space in front of the mountains I´ll add a ME tall steel viaduct
Another small scene with an grainelevator
Here´s the picture with the elevator
On the last part of the layout the benchwork is still under construction and I´ve started adding the second level..
JL Innovative Design Saw Pit Store and Campbell Scale Models abandoned House...
I´ll add some more of the progress as it goes...I wish I have enough space for a small helix to reach the upper level but because space is limited I have do go other ways...
Time period will be mid 60´s to mid 70´s to get more variations to rolling stock and locos...So I could use Pacific Great Eastern and also British Columbia Railway paintshemes and lettering and I also want to use a little bit of CN material..Most of the locos are alcos,two RDC´s etc...
I aquired some nice rolling stock over the last years but a lot of it had to be repainted and lettered and also detailed...
Any comments,tips and critics are very welcome.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,Chris
last year I started with the construction of my modelrailroad in the basment of our house.I made some plans but have found out that this is not my way to build the layout....I used the plans and drawings as a starting point.
I wanted to build a canadian based layout and went deeper to the British Columbia Railway stuff...bought some DVD´s,a book about BCrail and searched the net for infos.
The first room is about 12x12 feet and the aditional room is about 19x5 feet.I wanted an layout along the walls.Benchwork in the long room is 18 inch wide and the rest will be mostly the same except the side below the window.It´s 24 inch with an peninsula on the ohter side...or better let my say today after some rebuilds it goes that way.
Here are some pictures as it started out last year
As you can see there were some cabinets hanging on the wall and also a lot of other modelling things around when I started the construction...After I have cleaned it out it looked like that
I started with some basic scenery,build some houses laid track and wired it and let run some trains....nice,okay...but something seemd wrong in my mind....so to make a long story short I decided ti rip of some parts of the layout and rebuild it.I decided to build a part of the Dawson Creek subdivison of British Columbia Railway,not prototypical but more freelanced,with it´s grainelevators etc...Also I decided to build a second level to a part of the layout and to make an addition to the next room of the basment.So here is a small tour starting on the additional room with an liftout to the entrance door from the garden.
Left to the door I´ll make a hole to the wall to enter a staging to the left into another room.
Computer and workbench.
a little townscene with a passing siding
The station will be changed to a more typical and smaller station
some residental homes
The house with the blue trim will be also changed to an Bungalow from American Modelbuilders I recently bought
to the space in front of the mountains I´ll add a ME tall steel viaduct
Another small scene with an grainelevator
Here´s the picture with the elevator
On the last part of the layout the benchwork is still under construction and I´ve started adding the second level..
JL Innovative Design Saw Pit Store and Campbell Scale Models abandoned House...
I´ll add some more of the progress as it goes...I wish I have enough space for a small helix to reach the upper level but because space is limited I have do go other ways...
Time period will be mid 60´s to mid 70´s to get more variations to rolling stock and locos...So I could use Pacific Great Eastern and also British Columbia Railway paintshemes and lettering and I also want to use a little bit of CN material..Most of the locos are alcos,two RDC´s etc...
I aquired some nice rolling stock over the last years but a lot of it had to be repainted and lettered and also detailed...
Any comments,tips and critics are very welcome.
Thanks for looking.
Cheers,Chris
