L&N somewhere in Eastern Kentucky

[Baronjutter]

Just discovered this thread now, amazing!!  A really really nice layout.  Love the street running, the industrial buildings made of plywood, your amazing painting skills, it's all so good.

There's a turnout in the street though on your street running, how did you embed it into the road?

[VonRyan]

Odd thing about the inclusion in MR is that they say that your layout is HO... and I knew I recognized the structure with its Lego roof adornments.

[LIRR]

I noticed that, they called it HO even tho I clearly said N scale in the emails we exchanged. You can tell its N by the thickness of the plywood compared to the track width. I sent the photos in reference to an article a few months prior about building large structures with foam-board, thought I'd share my method for large structures. I never mentioned hiding staging tracks at all. They also spelled my name wrong twice.

[VonRyan]

That almost clearly shows how much disregard they have for N scale.   

[LIRR]

Doesn't bother me.....the check cleared.

[Baronjutter]

MRR doesn't think any other scale than HO exists so when they saw a layout so stunning they couldn't de-program them selves.

[cjjd6901]

This is such a great thread, with some many great ideas. Pure TRW awesomness.

   It certainly is an awesome thread!  I feel inspired

Best,

   Chris

[LIRR]

here's a photo of the turnout in the street:

I debated how to do it for awhile...trying to pave the points area was begging for trouble, so I was very reluctant to do so. I've also seen many photos of "street running" with a track down an unpaved center median, which I like, but I like the rails-in-the-pavement look better. so I combined the two.  Normal viewing is at a low angle, so it doesn't jump out at you, and it will look better with ballast. I plan to put a "keep- right" sign & striped trafffic sign in the appropriate place and a guardrail. I am going to fill in over the headblocks with painted styrene.

[Baronjutter]

That looks super good and I think the ballasted median will be fine.  heck you could do the whole rest of it like that and only have paved bits at intersections. 

I really really wanted to do some industrial street running on my layout but I just couldn't find a place to do it where it looked natural.  At first i thought you had a tram though!  I have a tram at least.

[Philip H]

BNSF runs through downtown Fort Collins, CO with open track between curbs.  I'll post a pic here shortly.

[davefoxx]

BNSF runs through downtown Fort Collins, CO with open track between curbs.  I'll post a pic here shortly.

So does CSX (former RF&P) in Ashland, Virginia.

DFF

[Philip H]

Here's a cropped Fort Collins road shot:



Should be easy to duplicate the curbs and what not . . . .

[parkrrrr]

The Nittany & Bald Eagle runs like that through Tyrone, PA, too, without curbs between street and track. It's visible on Google Street View.

[jpec]

Just jumped on this train but that's some damn fine work you've done there...

Jeff

[LIRR]

Thanks