Good Morning!
I wanted to share this video on my freelance railway (based upon the Great Northern Railway “Fallen Flag”): The Glacier Line, which is primarily a MTH, DCS powered and controlled railway, featuring some specialty Ross Custom Switches. People believe that “O” scale modeling is expensive and NOT for budget model railroaders.
I request that those of us on limited budgets to pay particular attention to the backdrops. Every drop of paint on these backdrops came from the return racks at Lowes and Menards. Entire gallons of paint cost no more than 5 bucks.
The backdrops range from 18 inches high to 3.5 feet high and virtually surround the entire basement including the one very long peninsula (double-sided backdrops). As you may imagine, this saved us a ton of money!
Also, there is a good view of my 7 foot long, 21 bent, curved wooden trestle bridge. This bridge is constructed as a tribute to the Great Northern Railway Historical Society and the GN railway to share the fact that the first trestles around Glacier Park were made of wood—not steel—which came in about 1900.
The wood square sticks used in construction were purchased from Menards during an 11% off scale and this huge bridge cost a small fraction of what you’d believe, like the $17 turntable in a previous video. It is visually impressive, very sturdy and very inexpensive to construct.
The Great Northern Railway Historical Society has numerous photographs of various bridges and structures, all which could be built from scratch-built with inexpensive wood pieces from Menards—the snow-sheds you will see are other examples.
If you model GN, or other roads, or base your “fallen flag” “budget layout” or “free-lance” layout on other lines, you may to consider joining a society---great information and stories!
You may also notice all of our accurate historical GN replica monuments/buildings/paintings and these were all exceptionally inexpensive to create.
In the video, the Roosevelt Monument (for those of you who recognize it) was a bird perch which was purchased at a flea market! It is a dead-ringer for the real one because of my wife’s (Connie) artistic talents.
And as written before, I’ll be doing future operations videos because of the unexpected overwhelming amount of positive response/views. IF there is something you’d like to see, please let me know. I’m NOT promising I can do it, but I will do what I can. Very lastly, thank you to everyone for all the “likes” and positive responses!
I love this hobby, always have, all scales, all layouts, and truly enjoy being in communication with all of you through Facebook. We can all learn from each other regardless of scale, gauge, toy, prototype, or actual railroad.
Facebook, as have other Internet pages, brought the railroad community together as never like before. God bless and have a great day!
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IT SHAKES! Rich....no not embedded...I've got to take the time...
