Mill Creek HOn30

[Chris333]

Also here is a Trains magazine PDF on the railroad:
http://trn.trains.com/~/media/files/pdf/web-exclusives/trains-oct-2010-web-ex2.pdf

[Chris333]

Just now decided to search for trails in the park and found this photo:
http://bluelikethat.drakeink.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/camp14.jpg

That concrete pier is the one that used to carry the railroad bridge.
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/file.php?1,file=28652,in_body_attachment=1

[Chris333]

Did some basic base color to the area. The trestle bents are just there loose. Put some quick "water" paint down to show where it goes. There will be another small waterfall at the edge of the layout.

[Dave V]

I'm lovin' this build...!   

[Chris333]

So I tore the mine out of the old layout:


And plopped it down on the new layout.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ok, there's a problem with your mine.

As it's placed now, it can only ever fill two cars without being switched out.

If you don't care, it looks beautiful, if you do, you might need to make some alterations.

[Dave V]

Ok, there's a problem with your mine.

As it's placed now, it can only ever fill two cars without being switched out.

If you don't care, it looks beautiful, if you do, you might need to make some alterations.

That's the case with both of those mines, but then again I don't know what the load-out rate would be for such small mines and small cars.

[Chris333]

Think I remember that there were like 12 car movements a day up at the mines. There were about 10 small mines, most were on a single stub track.

[DKS]

The problem I see is a facing and a trailing siding with no runaround. I suppose that's OK if you deal with each one independently from opposite directions...

[Chris333]

Consider that on the small layout I ripped the mine from the turnout to it was non-functioning... On this layout the turnouts work, but I'll just be running trains.

Here are a bunch of mines around Clifftop WV:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1xT4OtKUkby4kT1Won3OxxfRTOV2YRRkN&ll=38.000241272750245%2C-80.9456515534144&z=14

You can see a lot of them are just stub tracks. 1 or 2 have a runaround. In the center of town there was a runaround, imagine they ran to the town center before the long trip down the hill.

[DKS]

On this layout the turnouts work, but I'll just be running trains.

Yep, another roundy-rounder like me... Carry on!

BTW, @VonRyan and I were just talking about this today. Tore apart one perfectly good layout to make another perfectly good layout. Sounds a lot like me...

 

[VonRyan]

Can we just see a photo of where you keep the rest of the layouts you've built (started, completed, etc.)?

I just keep envisioning a wall of your basement where there's a rack of dozens of layouts in various stages of work.
Or sometimes I envision a corner of your basement where there sits a pile of layouts that never got far past the tracklaying phase, and a shelf beside it with the various layouts that you've made progress on along with the ones you've "completed".

[Chris333]

Well some layouts are in the corner and some are on a shelf. Some layouts are under other layouts. One layout just became a shelf for other layout parts. Some layouts get shipped out and end up flocked with grass    The small one I tore the mine from will get tossed out after I pluck all the trees.

[Chris333]

BTW the tipple was modeled after one at Whitby WV. One single photo that I reversed and scale to HO, then built right over the photo.

[milw12]

Liking all the updates Chris, looking good as usual, really like the trestle. And that real mill on the last page almost looks has an old world/European vibe to it, very cool.

Had an idle question while looking at the mine- having extensively modeled/scratch built in Z/N/HO (and O too?), do you have a scale that you prefer to scratch build in? Or are models just models no matter the scale.

Not trying to start anything, just curious knowing your large modeling portfolio and experience over the years.

Thanks
Lucas