Indiana Harbor Belt of Texas

[MichaelWinicki]

Outstanding job guys!

Love the yard.

The layout ought to be a ball to operate!

But for all the effort and resources you've put into the benchwork, track and control panels why not go with some nice photo backdrops for around the wall?

[Rossford Yard]

Eventually, wall photos is the plan. For the scene you showed, I am planning on going to Chicago and getting a photo of that actual Broadway St. crossing.  Hopefully that can be made into the proper perspective to make the road/wall joint seamless.  If not, back to the drawing boards.

I have many structures and flats but the other areas will have background photos behind those as well.  Behind Gibson, I might even do a distance shot of downtown Chicago, just for persepctive and to set the locale, although I am not sure you can actually see it from there in the proto.  Blue Island, maybe, on a clear day.

[soo]

  Yes thankfully there was no blood shed in the constructing of this model railroad. LOL I wish I had taken more time to clean up the room, maybe one day I can just take the time to clean so videos and or pictures would come out flawlessly.

  We were trying to think of a manual way to throw the switches in the front,, sub-micro slide switch???, center over spring made from staples or music wire?? Still thinking on the that. I also noticed that there are 2-3 LED's that are not pulling their weight,,, time to go slackers!!!! I will change those out. Uniformity breeds excellence !!!!!! LOL

 
   Well next time I go,, maybe some more work will get done,, heck I see a soldering iron and wires in my sleep now. LMAOOOOOOOO

  Adios till next time, Wyatt

[MichaelWinicki]

Eventually, wall photos is the plan. For the scene you showed, I am planning on going to Chicago and getting a photo of that actual Broadway St. crossing.  Hopefully that can be made into the proper perspective to make the road/wall joint seamless.  If not, back to the drawing boards.

I have many structures and flats but the other areas will have background photos behind those as well.  Behind Gibson, I might even do a distance shot of downtown Chicago, just for persepctive and to set the locale, although I am not sure you can actually see it from there in the proto.  Blue Island, maybe, on a clear day.

Ah! That would be very good RY.

But let me say getting the background images/backdrop in early in the process is much easier than trying to fit it in later. 

The rough surface of the wall is a challenge.

[Rossford Yard]

Michael,

Good points, and I figure I will have to print on thick cardstock, or mount on thin styrene.  I know there are some challenges in not working from the back, but I didn't want to wait to get started, nor did I have time to fly to Chicago for photos, although I have connected through there a few times, must not in summer when I would want the photos.

Worse comes to worse, we did paint the walls blue, but I could install 2' high masonite to get that smooth surface, as I had on my last layout.  Actually, that was 4" high all the way to the storage lid we built on that layout, but I may want to use the space above here for proto photos of the same scene.  Seeing the top of the backdrop hasn't reduced my enjoyment of other similar layoust.

[MichaelWinicki]

I don't think seeing the top of the backdrop is a big deal either RY.

[Hornwrecker]

Nice yards.  Any idea on car capacity?

[PAL_Houston]

Well that was quick,,lol.

 .....

  Adios for now,, more pics coming. Wyatt

Wow!  Lot's of great progress!!  You had a very busy weekend I guess 

[soo]

Paul, yes a busy weekend it was. I do not get to come up much...so I like to cram as many hours in as I can.
  If I get tired of doing something, I work on something else for awhile.

  Coca cola and Copenhagen keep me going most of the time.
Adios, Wyatt

[Coxy]

... I am planning on going to Chicago and getting a photo of that actual Broadway St. crossing. 

In the mean time, you can probably get some good mockups from Google street view. Here's how it looks from the middle of the Broadway St grade crossing.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=broadway+street+blue+island&hl=en&ll=41.650189,-87.686371&spn=0.01924,0.046091&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.632176,94.394531&hnear=Broadway+St,+Blue+Island,+Illinois&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=41.650189,-87.686371&panoid=xq3XOuu_oSn8g1rouWj0pg&cbp=12,77.96,,0,11.74

Looking great. Keep the pics and vids coming!!
Coxy

[Rossford Yard]

Coxy,

Thanks. I have looked at those, and hope to model something close.  For instance, I bought a Kate's Garage because that house on the right has a separate garage.  I don't recall the first house on the left being a split level like that!  I also have what I need to do that junk/auto salvage place.  So, good to keep researching as memory is funny.

Nice to see Broadway curves a bit.  I may need to move that curve closer to the tracks in the N scale version to hide the joint and its always easier to hide the end of a road if it curves off behind trees rather than goes dead straight.....

[nscalemike]

This looks great,  a very interesting area to model in N-scale.  Drive by that area quite often to see family.

Keep the posts coming!

Mike

[soo]

Well it is has been awhile since anything new has been posted about the Mansfeild sub on the IHB.

  This past trip I was able to get all torti and blue points installed and wired up. The last of the control panels were done. I tell ya,, I am getting sick of DPDT's, Bi-Polar LED's and soldering. GEEZ

 I am gueesing that there is about 60+ torti. All of those have LED's and toggles. The crossovers involve 3 LED's and one toggle. And the blue points,,, are ,,,you know,,, manual. Four of those. There are a couple of Turnouts that still need a postive throw mech..I think anywhere from 3-5. Maybe later.



 

  Work was completed on the refinery and grain complex. The refinery has capacity of 10-12 cars, depending on what size tank cars you use. The grain area should be able to hold about 24-26 covered hoppers







 Yes I know, those are chemical covered hoppers in the pics,,, the grain LO's are shorter so more can be squeezed in there.

 Here is a quick video I shot using my phone. ( I forgot I had the HDcam in the car).

Well there ya have it...

  Adios, Wyatt

[Denver Road Doug]

Looks good!

[soo]

thanx doug,,now it is time to work on mine.

  Adios, Wyatt