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Nice diesels John!

Kyle - A Fellow "Train-Nerd"

990 looks fantastic!

John, your P 48 diesels are excellent, good work!

Hi John,

Always wonderful to see your locos and layout.  I have a question on the LED lighting.  Do you use little surface mount LEDs for the walkway lights or conventional LEDs?  Those walkway lights are really and nice touch.

Scott

Very nice!  Keep bringing the updates John!

~Tim

@Scott Kay posted:

Hi John,

Always wonderful to see your locos and layout.  I have a question on the LED lighting.  Do you use little surface mount LEDs for the walkway lights or conventional LEDs?  Those walkway lights are really and nice touch.

Scott

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

Scott, I use 0603 warm white surface mount LEDs for all lights. I make socket holders for the headlights out of 1/8" tubing, and 1/8" tubing and .030 styrene for walkway lights.

I'm getting some time to work on my layout this 4th of July holiday. I framed up some more of the basement and building up the hillside and sculpting landscaping along this section of double track main, I'm also installing a rural grade crossing and ballasting track here. The inside main is 84" radius thru this curve on the lower level of the layout and makes approximately a 90 degree turn, mains will enter a double track portal at the west end of the curve. These five modules are still on coasters but getting closer to mounting permanently, being on coasters makes it easier to work on.

Wow.  Quite impressive.  Thanks for sharing!

Just following, I like your ground light engineering

John, I like your Mack truck.

John, really nice work there!  That trackwork is outstanding!  I really like how the curve is laid out and flows smoothly.

Thanks Mike!

Haven't posted any updates in a while but still chipping away on the layout. I'm currently working on a section of double track main through a tunnel. I cast a portal last night and think they turned out pretty good for the first attempt.