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    BearClaw Valley Railroad

    This is really starting to look great! I look forward to seeing your next update.
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    Need a name for my Railroad.

    Well I feel like I may have come to a final idea for a name. This layout will be very freelanced and not geographically accurate at all, so I felt that using the name of a real existing or past line would be misleading. I was considering the SP&S because it has a few elements that do resemble...
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    Need a name for my Railroad.

    The railroad will be a short line. There will be three staging yards (east, west, and upper) that will act as distant locations for local traffic to originate from. The largest industry on the upper level is a coal mine, while the largest industry on the lower level is a harbor/ wharf with a...
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    Need a name for my Railroad.

    As our friend Heath Ledger would say "why so serious?" Humor is in every way welcome in the class of learning. In many ways and for a lot of people, humor is a more effective learning tool than any other. I surely do know what the NMRA is, and I have been studying the standards they have been...
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    Need a name for my Railroad.

    Hilarious! I will be mindful of these elusive hit-men... I may just hire security! Thanks for the laugh.
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    Need a name for my Railroad.

    Hello everybody, I am at a mental block here and I can not come up with a name for my railroad. I will be modeling early 1940's, preferably in the Pacific NW. I am new to the hobby, like just starting out and don't have a layout or much experience to speak of, new. I am learning a lot from the...
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    My first REAL layout.

    Ah, yes, insulation is coming soon and so will drywall. I will not be going full height with the drywall because I will simply end up covering it up anyway with backdrop. But I will be dry walling any areas where there is no backdrop or that are visible. Also, being as I am in the HVAC...
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    My first REAL layout.

    Bench Work. I got to spend a little time with my oldest this weekend building a couple sections of bench work. This is very exciting for me, as it gives me a visible reminder of what the heck I am even doing here. It seems like it has been a lot of work for no reward up to this point, and...
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    My first REAL layout.

    Progress. The vision is starting to take shape. I have so far been able to do all the roof repairs and remove the existing wall that was in the way. Now I will be getting some concrete cutting done to make room for a door, and also to remove the old foundation between my garages that will no...
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    My first REAL layout.

    New Track Plan! Well, as I work toward getting my layout room completed, I decided that the amature track plan that I had done in SCARM was simply not good enough. I wanted something that would support a group of people, or just me and my kids, that could run prototypically, or continuous. If...
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    My first REAL layout.

    Yes, I agree. And boy howdy has it been a head scratcher trying to figure where that leak originated from. I think I have it stopped for now, at least temporarily. The entire house will be getting re-roofed this spring/ summer so I'm not too worried about doing anything permanent. Thanks for...
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    My first REAL layout.

    And continuing on... So this is where I am today. Not there yet, but not too far away either. So close yet so far as they say. This is looking from the South-West corner of the room roughly 7 feet from the floor. No I'm not that tall, not even close. Vertically challenged is what you'd call...
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    My first REAL layout.

    It's about that time! So for that past few weeks I have been making efforts toward the reclamation of the back parts of my shop for my model railroad room. It has been a less than fun time, but the reward is worth it I think. I noticed back a few posts ago that not all of my pictures showed...
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    My first REAL layout.

    This is not railroad related, but I thought that it might be nice to share. This is a great display of the vast differences in landscapes you can see here in Oregon. http://www.movoto.com/blog/opinions/time-lapse-oregon/
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    My first REAL layout.

    I also would like to mention my biggest inspiration for doing this; and that would be my father. He is the one who build my first "layout" on a 4x8 piece of plywood that was in our garage and folded up to the wall. It was an Atlas double main line plan with one small siding running on DC. This...
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