What's happening on your layout?


I posted this in the Coffee Shop last week.
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Marlin338MX said:
I don't envy you or anyone else who has to tear down your layout to try to relocate it to another building. I'm looking forward to watching your progress.
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I see it as an adventure. Especially with the huge upgrade we are getting!

This will be my 5th layout since 2013. (notice the previous one was called "Daves Layout v 4.0")

Layout 3 was a basement layout, a nice new basement with lots of room. Layout 2 was a 4 x 8, was moved 60 miles, and later I was able to sell it!. Layout 1 was also a basement layout, in a pretty crummy basement.

For me, the fun is as much in the building as in the having.

Dave LASM
 
I've ordered a new station kit and warehouse/workshop building. The station will replace the current station on Deutsche Bahn's main lines through Michaelstadt. The current station is an Auhagen kit that I did not know at the time was in 1/100 scale. It's rather small, and was to be used for either TT or HO scale. Too small for me though.

The workshop is a wood and cardstock kit from Busch, but a location hasn't been determined for it yet.

The station is a reproduction of the station found at Schwarzburg in Thuringia, Germany.

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Wiring was done on some far away places on Waldenburg Midland, mainly to make sure enough juice flows to the far side of the railroad:
I have also weathered some mainline rails, this time using oxide red primer, visible where the E44 comes out of the tunnel on mainline. The derailment at the end was caused by me recording and not payin attention to misalligned switch points. Besides that there are practically no derailments with trucked locomotives.
 
This showed up. Not sure what you'd need to haul that weighs 370 tons but if you do, here's your car.

Actually, it is a day off the printer and minutes out of the spray booth. All the visible (and some you can't see from here) brake piping is in the print. The steps are brass because they'd be taken out by the first derailment. The trucks have lettering on them so small you could write it on the side of a stack of 2 sheets of paper. Amazing...


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I'm not sure if a flat car this big has ever visited the Pacific Northwest. Usually, we barge our big shipments close to where they need to go then put them on a truck. We also have lots of tunnels.
 
kjd said:
This showed up. Not sure what you'd need to haul that weighs 370 tons but if you do, here's your car.

Actually, it is a day off the printer and minutes out of the spray booth. All the visible (and some you can't see from here) brake piping is in the print. The steps are brass because they'd be taken out by the first derailment. The trucks have lettering on them so small you could write it on the side of a stack of 2 sheets of paper. Amazing...


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I'm not sure if a flat car this big has ever visited the Pacific Northwest. Usually, we barge our big shipments close to where they need to go then put them on a truck. We also have lots of tunnels.
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Nice, and unique piece of rail rolling stock.
 
Rico said:
Paul, here’s a few loads you could print for that car…

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Flatcars and Oversize Loads

Flat cars are interesting because of the loads they carry. Special flatcars are built for extra high, long, and/or heavy loads. If the load ...
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Rico said:
Paul, here’s a few loads you could print for that car…

industrialscenery.blogspot.com

Flatcars and Oversize Loads

Flat cars are interesting because of the loads they carry. Special flatcars are built for extra high, long, and/or heavy loads. If the load ...
industrialscenery.blogspot.com industrialscenery.blogspot.com
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Thanks Rico. There are lots of interesting things to see.

Some of the commenters aren’t too good at counting, a link to an article about a “12 axle flat” leads to photos of a 16 axle car. Later, “The frame spreads the load over 16 axles” and the photo shows a frame sitting on two 12 axle cars.
 
logandsawman said:
Looks like a tornado went through here, just a bear roaming around on the streets and a few odd things left standing:

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not sure how the water tank survived

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just a couple derriks left here

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somehow the Wyoming depot moved about 100'.

Dave LASM
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These photos remind me of some of the historic photos of railroads that have closed and were abandoned. It's very realistic looking, that theme would make for an interesting diorama subject.
 
Colorado Midland Modeler said:
These photos remind me of some of the historic photos of railroads that have closed and were abandoned. It's very realistic looking, that theme would make for an interesting diorama subject.
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While I was removing the buildings, I found this forgotten bear. When I set him on one of the old roads, that was my thought.

Makes me want to have a bigger open space on the new layout.

Thanks for commenting!!!

Dave LASM
 
KriegslokBR52 said:
Grab some black and white shots without the facia showing up.
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Here is a sample:

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I have 8 photos in B and W. All the buildings are down, and track will be coming out as soon as the benchwork is done in the new shed, probably early next week.

Looks really different with the buildings out. When I built it, I landscaped everything then put in the buildings, so there is usually ground cover in the building pads.

Dave LASM
 
logandsawman said:
Here is a sample:

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I have 8 photos in B and W. All the buildings are down, and track will be coming out as soon as the benchwork is done in the new shed, probably early next week.

Looks really different with the buildings out. When I built it, I landscaped everything then put in the buildings, so there is usually ground cover in the building pads.

Dave LASM
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That's a good shot. Looks like storm clouds gathering over the prairie.
 
logandsawman said:
Here is a sample:

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I have 8 photos in B and W. All the buildings are down, and track will be coming out as soon as the benchwork is done in the new shed, probably early next week.

Looks really different with the buildings out. When I built it, I landscaped everything then put in the buildings, so there is usually ground cover in the building pads.

Dave LASM
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Thats post-apocalyptic looking. Only Smokey is left.
 
logandsawman said:
Here is a sample:

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I have 8 photos in B and W. All the buildings are down, and track will be coming out as soon as the benchwork is done in the new shed, probably early next week.

Looks really different with the buildings out. When I built it, I landscaped everything then put in the buildings, so there is usually ground cover in the building pads.

Dave LASM
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Great photo! Having many of the books on the Colorado Midland, it reminds me of some of the photos in them of the CM just before the tracks were torn up.
 
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