Conrail up in Coal Country

[wm3798]

Two thumbs up!

DFF

2x4 that assumes that the Sawzall left him with two thumbs

[davefoxx]

Thanks!

I'm glad, too, after working with the sawzall that I too can return the gesture. lol

Ahahahahaha!!!!  Guess we’ll save the nickname, “Stumpy,” for another day!

DFF

[Hawghead]

Then I did something very important:  I organized the crap that had been cluttering up the room. The big news is that everything fits under the footprint of the layout!



Welllll, a little overhang but who's counting? 

OK, I'm the new guy here so I'll stick my head in the Lion's mouth.  What the taboo with "around the walls"?

Scott

[davefoxx]

OK, I'm the new guy here so I'll stick my head in the Lion's mouth.  What the taboo with "around the walls"?

Scott

Nothing is taboo about "around the walls."  Ed is merely building a temporary layout that he might have for just a few years, and he's designing and building an island-style layout, which will easier and more manageable to build than a huge around-the-room layout.

DFF

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Nothing is taboo about "around the walls."  Ed is merely building a temporary layout that he might have for just a few years, and he's designing and building an island-style layout, which will easier and more manageable to build than a huge around-the-room layout.

DFF

Exactly. And while I was coming up with the plan I was met with a hail of "you should do it around the walls" comments. So now it's kinda a running bit.

[pdx1955]

I think it looks nice and fits well in the space. Islands can make sense in rooms like this with multiple doors on multiple walls. I always welcome a new LE thread here to monitor and grab ideas from, and I'm sure Ed's will be no exception!

[nuno81291]

I like how you are sticking to your guns and not overbuilding it. The track plan looks simple enough that you should be running in no time... what’s your eta on laying down foam? What season are you gonna model?

This is gonna be hawt.

Make TRW Great Again

JFRT

[Jbub]

Exactly. And while I was coming up with the plan I was met with a hail of "you should do it around the walls" comments. So now it's kinda a running bit.

I see a theme here, You say you don't want a helix, then everyone suggests a helix. You say you don't want to build along the walls, everyone insists you build along the walls. And it's not just you, switching scales or what ever. People here seem to not like change or going against the percieved normal way of doing things.

[wm3798]

One of my favorite projects was the Temporary Rig I builtvwhile I was renovating the attic space and planning "the big one"

Totally an exercise in JFRTM.

Lee

[OldEastRR]

Yesterday I performed some surgery on the one door in the far corner, shortening it up by a foot to give me a wider aisle over on the left side by the laundry room.

Then I did something very important:  I organized the crap that had been cluttering up the room. The big news is that everything fits under the footprint of the layout!

Do you have a fisheye lens on your camera?

[OldEastRR]

Since I know nothing about this area you're modeling I went poking around on Google maps to look at the real places. I agree it looks like a lot of loose-ended cut-off lines were bundled together into a group. Is Saint Nicholas a dead-end branch? I couldn't see any lines leading away past the breaker. ( I saw the derelict steamer tho).  You might want to do that, have each of these areas a dead-end but linked through crossing lines to each other over chopped-off through lines. Even having a switchback (left of a partially-abandoned main) to connect an area. Then make the oval (which I assume is for just roundy-roundy) attached to the yard but not any of the scenes, just to the single "branch" which leads back and forth between the various areas. Plus what's with all the tangent track on your plan? What I see of the real trackage it curves this way and that all over the place!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Do you have a fisheye lens on your camera?

It's the panorama function on my phone. The only way to get the whole room in one shot.

[Hawghead]

Exactly. And while I was coming up with the plan I was met with a hail of "you should do it around the walls" comments. So now it's kinda a running bit.

Ahhh, so I'm guessing the helix thing is along the same lines. 

Scott

[narrowminded]

I found a picture for confirmation.  I went 1-1/2" below the HCD on the Seaboard Central 2.0.  You can see the 1"x 4" strapping crossing the door where the banquet table legs are attached.  There's 3/4" of fascia visible below that.  I don't recall any significant sag on the v2.0, but perhaps @narrowminded can confirm that on what is now a seven-year-old layout.



DFF

Been away and just got this.  No sag evident. 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ahhh, so I'm guessing the helix thing is along the same lines. 

Scott

Exactly!

Basically, the RailWire is where I go to get my balls busted.

But it DOES make me a better modeler.