Oregon Joint Line N Scale

[coldriver]

/>Here's an updated layout tour video of the Oregon Joint Line featuring recently completed scenes!

[nkalanaga]

I love the basalt!  You've certainly captured the eastern Oregon scenery.

[superchief]

Dean,
    GREAT VIDEO!!!!! love the progress, looking better than ever! cannot wait till I can operate on your railroad again!
                                                       Gordon Bliss
                                                       Santa Fe-All the Way

[Cajonpassfan]

Fabulous!
It's getting better and better, and the new backdrops add a whole another dimension.
Really nice work, Dean!
Otto K.

[SAH]

Now THAT is awesome.  Beautiful job.

[SSW7771]

Dean the layout is looking great! Can wait until the next op session to see the progress in person.

[basementcalling]

Dean wins the Railwire for the weekend.

[Jbub]

Dean, great layout tour! Your layout is an inspiration to many here.

[coldriver]

Thanks for all the positive feedback.  I tried hard to get the entire video done in one continuous shot with throttles strategically placed around the layout for each scene, but it was just too much trying to juggle the camera and that many throttles.  But I did manage to get it down to two shots for the upper level and then a third for the lower level! 


The photo above coming out the the tunnel into Picture Gorge is not a newly completed scene but for some reason I'd never really explored the photographic possibilities until very recently.   


Hopefully I'll see you for the DFW Interchange this fall Gordon.  And my apologies for not making it down to Hooters last year due to an unavoidable conflict...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Yeah man, I know I've said it before, but I really dig your layout. Very different than what I'm used to but very cool!

[nkalanaga]

I just noticed the gaps between the basalt layers.  Very nice!  On the prototype, those are soil that formed, or blew in, between lava flows.  They often still have plant and animal residues in them.

[CRL]

Yours is one of the few layouts I’ve seen that have enough dirt modeled to create realistic scenery. Most layouts are way too clean and look like everything’s been power washed without leaving any mud behind.

Kudos.

[coldriver]

I just noticed the gaps between the basalt layers.  Very nice!  On the prototype, those are soil that formed, or blew in, between lava flows.  They often still have plant and animal residues in them.

Confession time - in North Texas it's tough to get 2" inch thick and larger foam so I had to use 1".  The gaps you see are between the 1" foam layers.  I was going to fill the gaps with scupltamold but as you noted, real basalt has those gaps so I left them.  I just wish they were a little more irregular. 

[nuno81291]

This is really where n scale shines; making a train seem engulfed by scenery and large vistas. Looks excellent!

[mark dance]

/>Here's an updated layout tour video of the Oregon Joint Line featuring recently completed scenes!

It is all fabulous but that segment through Picture Gorge at 9:00 mark was incredible! 
md