Phase 2 begins!

[seusscaboose]

I just went behind the furnace/water heater...

does the refrigerator know?

Fridge is LOOOOOOOOOOONG gone....  getting it up the stairs was NOT fun.

back to your regularly scheduled "Lee's closet issues" thread...

[asciibaron]

Fridge is LOOOOOOOOOOONG gone

don't you know that a great model railroad is built around a well stocked beer fridge?

[DKS]

where are those tunnels on the WM you have?

You'll find them on here:

http://whiteriverandnorthern.net/images/upper_level.jpg

[asciibaron]

where are those tunnels on the WM you have?

You'll find them on here:

http://whiteriverandnorthern.net/images/upper_level.jpg

my point is the WM doesn't have tunnels where he has tunnels on the layout.  if his layout isn't maintaining fidelity, i can get by with my scheme and he can't say squat  ;D

[wm3798]

I never claimed prototypical fidelity.  You're making an argument where there never was one.    For one thing, I've got Maryland Jct. railroad west of Cumberland Station.  I've been stuck with that ever since the first draft.

The tunnels are where they are because that's where they have to be.  The layout is a series of vignettes that are more or less in geographical order.  The tunnels serve more as a vehicle to transport you through time and space than to accurately represent a particular location.

From my website, originally posted around 2004...
"As with any model railroad, I had to modify some things to get all of my operating and scenic goals to fit in the room.  The single most obvious is the consolidation of the yards at Knobmount and Hagerstown to create one functional yard that I'm calling Ridgeley.  Hagerstown, with it's two large class yards and full blown engine terminal and shops was just too big to do it justice, and Knobmount's vast yard just couldn't be worked in.  So I've developed a functional model railroad yard that suits the operations I've concocted, and included a big enough engine terminal to reflect the yard's importance.  Operationally, the yard handles all east and west bound through freights, and serves as a division point in terms of run through locomotives from the connecting lines."  You can read the rest here: www.wmrywesternlines.net/operationsprojects.php


The important thing on my layout, as I state in the above passages, is the flow of the traffic.  East-West bridge traffic and coal from tipple to its many destinations.  Believe me, if I had a barn available, I'd model every stitch of the WM from Port Covington to Laurel Bank and Spruce.

But for now, I've picked up a few essentials at the Radio Shack...  so it's time to make with the soldering iron...

[wm3798]

Last night caught up on some "invisible work" involving 2-pole audio jacks, wire and solder...  More news as it happens...

Lee

[asciibaron]

You're making an argument where there never was one.

don't get me wrong, i'm not making an argument, i'm just saying that you model a line and have added things to get it to flow from scene to scene - that's something i've had a hard time accepting - adding a tunnel to get things to flow is better than not having anything.  my point is that if you are able to model the WM and use those transitional elements, then i too can use them.

[wm3798]

You're right about that... Brian will have a hard time using tunnels to disguise a return loop on the Rock Island in Iowa...   (cue the google search for the picture of the Rock Island tunnel in Iowa...)

[asciibaron]

You're right about that... Brian will have a hard time using tunnels to disguise a return loop on the Rock Island in Iowa...  (cue the google search for the picture of the Rock Island tunnel in Iowa...)

there is a tunnel just across the river in East Dubuque, IL... the closest to Iowa of the 5 the Rock had.

[wm3798]

As of 9:46 pm EDT, the Thomas Sub has been reopened from Maryland Junction to Elkins, West Virginia.  After a MOW inspection train traversed the line behind BL-2 82, the first revenue train departed Maryland Jct.  The consist of empty hoppers was led by RS3's 191 and 186.  Despite slow orders through Thomas, where trackwork continues in the storage yard, the train made good time up the mountain, and arrived in Elkins on time.

The crew is currently switching the empties into the Elkins Yard, and assembling a train of loaded hoppers, along with several cars destined for the Westvaco plant at Luke, which will be departing shortly for the return trip.

Pictures of the momentous occasion to follow shortly...

[sizemore]

Pictures of the momentous occasion to follow shortly...

Lee

You know us so well!

The S.

Ps. Hurry it up already!  ;D

[wm3798]

More here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Lee.WildCard.Graphics/ThomasSub02?feat=directlink

I have to go to bed now.  I'm so tired it hurts...

Lee

[sizemore]

More here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Lee.WildCard.Graphics/ThomasSub02?feat=directlink

Lee

This makes me cringe...you have bigger brass than I.




The S.

[Philip H]

Massive coolness.  Can't wait to run it properly, with some pool power from the Southeast!

[wm3798]

Anyone got any 80' Micro Engineering kits drifting around that you don't need?  I've got the three 40' ponies I need...  I'm cutting some blocks of wood as temporaries.  Work's a little light today, maybe I'll throw in the river bed and some piers...

Lee