NYC Miller Place Sub Layout

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The New York Central Miller Place Sub is a fictitious line that runs in the 30's through the 50's around Robins home town are.
The Long Island Railroad was actually in that area but my railroad will depict an imaginary theme there.
The NEW NYC Sub will be in a 7’6” X 4’8”' area and use L girder bench work and Homasote top. I have decided to use DCC and new DCC friendly Walthers code 83 turnouts and Atlas code 83 Flex.

The layout is now about 5% complete and will start to lay track soon.


http://youtu.be/d0bxRVo8gKs


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Today I got the bench work done and am waiting for a sheet of homasote to arrive on tuesday.


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Thanks for stopping in, Mike & Robin
 
Good Morning Mike & Robin.
You didn't ask for comments so I hope mine isn't taken wrongly; but note that most of your switching movements will require removing any cars spotted on the tail tracks at other industries first, in order to clear the switchpoints. This may have been prototypical in the area you are modeling.
willie
 
santafewillie said:
Good Morning Mike & Robin.
You didn't ask for comments so I hope mine isn't taken wrongly; but note that most of your switching movements will require removing any cars spotted on the tail tracks at other industries first, in order to clear the switchpoints. This may have been prototypical in the area you are modeling.
willie
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Thanks Willie , I know it is not prototypical but it does create more fun for switching a small layout. It adds more challenge and thought.
Thanks , Mike
 


Wow, HO huh? Thought you were a die hard N scale guy! :p
Looks like this would keep you busy, I'm loving that scissor arrangement!
Nice clean looking benchwork too!
 
Rico said:
Wow, HO huh? Thought you were a die hard N scale guy! :p
Looks like this would keep you busy, I'm loving that scissor arrangement!
Nice clean looking benchwork too!
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Thanks Rico, Ithink you may be the only one out there that share my love of the scissors.
Mike
 
Today I got my undec Atlas HH600 finished with the exception of rusting the wheels. This locomotive was done from a 1939 photo of this locomotive, long before sill stripes and safety hand rail paint. The only real error is the wrong style lettering but it does not bother me.

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Mike
 
Like the vid there Mike.:D

You mentioned that you're going to put a mirror at the end of the yard. As you probably know, that's what John Allen did to "increase" the size of the great divide city and yard. But instead of using a regular mirror, he used a surface finished mirror. That way, none of the glass of the mirror could be seen in the reflection.

Great work. Now a question. Given the distance between the supports for the Homasote, are you concerned about the Homasote sagging?

When I could get Homasote down here in the South years ago, I always supported it by either a piece of plywood under it or several pieces of wood, cut to fit between the joists for support, since Homasote is real bad about sagging.
 


Cjcrescent said:
Like the vid there Mike.:D

You mentioned that you're going to put a mirror at the end of the yard. As you probably know, that's what John Allen did to "increase" the size of the great divide city and yard. But instead of using a regular mirror, he used a surface finished mirror. That way, none of the glass of the mirror could be seen in the reflection.

Great work. Now a question. Given the distance between the supports for the Homasote, are you concerned about the Homasote sagging?

When I could get Homasote down here in the South years ago, I always supported it by either a piece of plywood under it or several pieces of wood, cut to fit between the joists for support, since Homasote is real bad about sagging.
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Thanks ! No saging of homasote here and it also depends on which type of homasote used. This is 440 floor underlayment.
Thanks Again , Mike
 
I now have the backdrop painted as well as all the cork and track down. I also was able to get all of the tortoise machines in. A little wiring will likely be next.

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Mike
 
Here is what I have been doing lately. I have a good start to the backdrop on the right hand wall.

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Mike
 
Mike, that is looking really good. Can't wait to see the finished layout and see some trains running.
 
HOexplorer said:
I like those building fronts. Info? Jim :)
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Thanks Jim , they are all Walthers Instant Horizons and some are pasted directly to the sky board with dollhouse wallpaper paste and the others are sprayed on the back with 3M77 spray adheasive and stuck to 1/4 " black foam core board and then cut out with a sharp xacto knife.
The last step is to wash them with thinned black acrylic to tone them down some. they are stuck to the sky board with poster putty.
Thanks , Mike
 
Here is a Walthers kit I have been working on for the layout. All I need to do is install the side steps and name the building. It will likely be the Miricle Furniture Company whode slogan is "If it's a great peice of furniture, It's a Miricle".

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Mike
 


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