FEC RR Layout

Your experience shows; it's happening pretty fast.

What's the story on the boat and dock area? Operating dock crane(s) or gantry crane?

Adriatic posted:

Your experience shows; it's happening pretty fast.

What's the story on the boat and dock area? Operating dock crane(s) or gantry crane?

Good question. I’m still debating. In matter of fact I just removed the blacktop to redo it. That’s one of the first place I want to attack when the time of the scenery will commence. For sure tomorrow the deck will be replace.

Hello everyone, I was able to work on the wharf this morning. I replaced the blacktop on the wharf.  I was able to reinstalled the track and I was able to installed the inserts between the tracks to make it look like the track will be imbedded in to the street.

Hello my fellow members, I have continued working on the layout but I haven't taken the time to return and report. So here I am trying to catch up on the blog to report. Here I am upgrading the wharf and increasing the deck to flush with the top of the rail. I am using Masonite to make the blacktop

Here are photos of the (almost) complete wharf

Tell us more about the ship...did you build it?  If not, who did and to what scale?

Thanks!

The ship. The ship is based out of a WW II Liberty Ship. Originally a good friend of mine who just recently passed away build it for me . He build it for our 2 rail O scale layout. It is a little too small for a true size O scale. The ship is closed to 5 feet long. But it gives a good representation of the ship. Like everything else in any scale, when you are modeling certain things, you have to improvised and adjust to make certain things because we're limited to the amount of real estate that we have.

Here are some more photos:

Here is the main road coming out of the wharf.