Len Turner
Well-Known Member
After the move to Cheyenne and dealing with some nagging physical/medical issues, the Pine Flat thing just got to be too much. So it's back to the old Texas South East theme. The original version of the Texas South East was an 18"x 8' switching layout based on Lance Mindheim's series of books on switching layouts I started about 10 years ago or so. It went through a series of moves, expansions, and eventually got scrapped. You can read the sob story over at the MRH forum...
Meanwhile...
This is the 4th, and hopefully the last, version of the Texas South East, which by the way bears absolutely no resemblance to anything in southeast Texas, its HO scale and primarily designed to move cars about a variety of industries with a track plan that also bears no resemblance to reality. Time period is 1950s. Lots of good stuff in the mrr marketplace for that era, plus that's when, as a kid, I got my passion for trains. Probably going to see a bunch of Walthers stuff. They look pretty good and lend themselves well to kit bashing and mingling. Gonna try to keep the equipment relevant to the time period too, but that might get stretched a bit.
Other than a couple of Atlas diesel locomotives, a couple of Walthers structure kits, and a few leftover pieces of rolling stock, I'm basically starting from scratch. Look for a new thread over in the Locomotives and Rolling Stock section in the next few days.
So hop on board and let's see where this crazy train takes us...
Meanwhile...
This is the 4th, and hopefully the last, version of the Texas South East, which by the way bears absolutely no resemblance to anything in southeast Texas, its HO scale and primarily designed to move cars about a variety of industries with a track plan that also bears no resemblance to reality. Time period is 1950s. Lots of good stuff in the mrr marketplace for that era, plus that's when, as a kid, I got my passion for trains. Probably going to see a bunch of Walthers stuff. They look pretty good and lend themselves well to kit bashing and mingling. Gonna try to keep the equipment relevant to the time period too, but that might get stretched a bit.
Other than a couple of Atlas diesel locomotives, a couple of Walthers structure kits, and a few leftover pieces of rolling stock, I'm basically starting from scratch. Look for a new thread over in the Locomotives and Rolling Stock section in the next few days.
So hop on board and let's see where this crazy train takes us...
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The usual low relief structures across the back side and some smaller stuff scattered around (wmiuawg - we're making it up as we go). Size, configuration and location of structures will determine actual track plan.