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Joe, I laid my track too and wish I had painted the ply brown or green before I tracked the boards to be part way to scenery. Just a little work to glue and spread some grass to cover the layout to get the bulk of it done. Then i would just have to add more detail scenery atop that. Now I have ot work around that track. boo. Guess I will spray oil color paint on the tracks to age them in place and then then do the grass detail qnd lastly the ballast.
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Originally posted by Mike-KCS:
Joe, Your engine house is great. Where did you get the tappered I beam truss?
Having owned a large metal red iron building, I can see that your model is perfect.

Thanks all. I made the trusses out of plywood. I just laid them out as a guess. I should have made them in 1 piece. Instead I had to glue the legs on. The building is a little rough in person. It captured the look of what I wanted.
Hi Joe,

Looks like the layout is coming along nicely. Hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of embeding your video.





I really love the look of your engine shed. The interior lighting looks spot on for HID industrial overhead fixtures. The exterior lights also look great. The different color washing the side of the building is very realistic. That's one place where dull coat would actually detract for the effect. The glossier finish looks just right for a metal building.
Top notch Joe....as others have said your engine house is a hit. The lights, the smokey haze...the trip hazards...er uh I mean details... Wink

Seriously though your layout is coming along great, thanks for the pics and vid's. How are you powering your layout?...AC right?....How many blocks did you incorporate? Oh and by the way what are the dimensions of your layout?...Thanks in advance Joe.
Eng. Joe, was amazed at the length of the train and then pushers at the end. I would have personally been afraid of the pushers pushing the cars off the track.
I also couldn't imagine unpacking so many cars, wow, especially now after packing all the ornaments away from the holiday.

Nice pass by.

Phill
The first few times I attempted to run long trains I was scared. I did have a derail, because of a small wheel flange on a bumpy track. The truck was too tight. I stayed with the smaller flanges.
As I run these I've found that the MTH PS2 decoders adjust the engines constantly. I even run a converted Atlas with PS2. The train has just the right pressure maintained. I can put my hand on top of a car and notice the engines adjusting for the drag of my hand! If I push, the engines will slow almost as if they're telling me to stop messing around. They are really sensitive.
After all that I'm pretty confident in the ability of the DCS system to run these huge consists. I'm going to try over 100 cars with a dozen engines spread through out the train. I've got to get some extra eyes down here to make sure things stay on track. It will get interesting when I build the mountain grades.

 I'm really disappointed that MTH didn't follow through with the "all new diesels will have the scale option". I guess they just meant newly tooled???

 The Genesis has the 3/2 trucks and was an easy swap out. Fixing the pilots should be fairly straight forward as the prototype has a division right there in the body/pilot mount. I just never got to it.

 The bridge in the pic is made of plaster and came from daebay. It's the only place that looks scenicked on my layout!

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