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onebar

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Hello,
I'm new to the forum. I'm into Ho scale railroding.
I've been employed with BNSF since 1999. Started my apprenticeship at Clyde Diesel Shop. Worked at the roundhouse, then took a position at 14th street working passenger service. Working on F40PH3's got to be boring. I went back to the freight side at Cicero. Living in the Chicagoland area, I've experienced a lot of different railroads. I've been a traveling machinist for a couple of years. I'm on call and don't have time to dedicate time to the hobby like I would like to.
I've started on the Carbondale Central. I'm not to happy with and am interested in building atlas Central Midland layout.
 
Hey! Welcome! From the looks of the layout plan, building and running that layout could keep you very busy. It's also sure to use 18" radius turns which modern big BNSF equipment will run on, but might look a bit silly. Keep in mind you'll probably want to run small stuff like GPs and 50' cars rather than SDs and 80' cars.
 
The Carbondale Central plans had 18" radius. I converted it to 22" radius. It's a figure 8 with sidings. I put a leg on the figure 8 to create a balloon turn around. I've been working on for 3 years now. I don't evenhave trains running on it.
3 children a wife and my demanding job. All children are under 3.
 


onebar,

I too am new to the forums and to model railroading, but welcome to the forums and I can tell you, even though I have only been here a few days, the people are great and very helpful.

Cheers,

Tony
 
onebar said:
The Carbondale Central plans had 18" radius. I converted it to 22" radius. It's a figure 8 with sidings. I put a leg on the figure 8 to create a balloon turn around. I've been working on for 3 years now. I don't evenhave trains running on it.
3 children a wife and my demanding job. All children are under 3.
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Sounds like a busy life ;)
 
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