Some construction photos showing progress to date on my HO scale layout, the Purgatory Creek & Northern. Layout is 4'x10' and based loosely on an old Atlas track plan, the Great Eastern Trunk (I eliminated one of three tracks on one end and everything inside the oval is different). Track is Atlas Code 100 laid on Homasote. Set in the 1950s in the Eastern U.S., someplace where the NYC and PRR share trackage rights; some locos and rolling stock will be painted and decaled for my freelance road, the PC&N. A 2' tall scenic divider made from tempered hardboard runs diagonally across the layout and splits it into two scenes: the front (first 4 pictures) will be the town of Purgatory Creek; the back side (last photo) will be staging with a locomotive servicing facility (with turntable and roundhouse). You can see the hole cut for the turntable in the last photo. Any constructive comments or suggestions will be appreciated.
My HO layout
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Thanks for the nice comments guys! Joed2323: the solder stand is just coathanger wire wound around a broomstick and then screwed to some scrap wood--I was motivated to make it after getting burned (literally) a couple of times!
The mountain/tunnel is built partly on rolled up newspaper, partly on cardboard strips. The portals are by Chooch Industries; the retaining wall is made from some stone wall material by Faller that I found at the local hobby shop. Below are a couple of earlier photos showing the construction.
The layout is four feet by ten feet.
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Thanks for the nice comments guys! Joed2323: the solder stand is just coathanger wire wound around a broomstick and then screwed to some scrap wood--I was motivated to make it after getting burned (literally) a couple of times!
The mountain/tunnel is built partly on rolled up newspaper, partly on cardboard strips. The portals are by Chooch Industries; the retaining wall is made from some stone wall material by Faller that I found at the local hobby shop. Below are a couple of earlier photos showing the construction.
The layout is four feet by ten feet.
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