Larry's Model RR Empire
- Thread starter Larry
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Worked on my large Bridge yesterday & here's a few pics. Top & Bottom View.
Hey Larry,
Whats the radius on that bridge?
Brad
It was 30", but it was to wide for the straight track to match up & I had to cut 2 inches out of the middle of the bridge. So, it's probably around
26 to 28". I'll have to check it later. Most big curves on my layout are around 26 to 28 inch.
Wow, that picture of your bridge makes it look alot tighter than that. It looks like a 15" radius in that bridge. Glad its not anywhere near that.
What makes it look tighter than it really is is the apparent use of a wide angle lens on the camera combined with the shot being real close-up. Sometimes to get a decent picture with everything in focus one has to do something like that. Doesn't take away from the great work going on by Larry.
Thanks Willis.
Larry
I'm asking
Somehow or other I just can't a layout of mine without at least one waterfallCheers
Willis
Larry:Well, it was way to hot to go in the trainroom today, so, I turned on the A/C in my shop & spent the day doing LED's & setting up flashing LED's for some of my buildings, water towers, tourist tower & a few other things.
Do you trim your leds down to fit the space they're going in or have you gotten lucky and they fit without problem? I'm talking more the light emitting end and not the base so much. I have some spaces where it's a little too small for the leds I have and I don't want to order the few smaller ones I would need or enlarge where they are going.
Larry:
Got a use for any old containers you may have laying around from when it was a container yard - how about making them into funky houses? Don't laugh - a couple of years ago I saw where some people made houses out of them, stacking them on top of each other and in various ways. It was a program on HGTV. I think it was in their Extreme Homes series.
Got a use for any old containers you may have laying around from when it was a container yard - how about making them into funky houses? Don't laugh - a couple of years ago I saw where some people made houses out of them, stacking them on top of each other and in various ways. It was a program on HGTV. I think it was in their Extreme Homes series.
That was one of them. It's amazing what one can do with something as simple, yet rugged, as these. Imagine one as a layout room and you're running sound decoders on your motive power. You'd feel just as if you're inside an F unit's carbody.Like this?
Ray Dunakin
Member
Nice, very impressive facility.
Ken G Price
Member
Larry, I like! A really nice looking layout.
I actually remember stores like those in my old area in Trenton (NJ USA) back in the 60's. One was a pharmacy/soda shop that had all kinds of neat looking stuff to this then-young one. Long gone now.
