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We have been working on our layout for a while now and are slowly making progress.

Our first real progress started with the construction of Bench work in Room1 followed by placement of our Train Sheds for a passenger terminal in the fall of 2010 followed by the Oil Refineryin Spring of 2011 and the Chicago Union Station(CUS) in the Fall of 201.

 

Over that period of time we installed several other buildings and a decked area over the CUS for a Dinner and a Bus Station to form the core of an intermodal transportation system.

 

We have been working with benchwork design in room 2 and the supporting buildings for room 2. In the fall of 2012 we built more bench work for our Grain Silo Complex, Power Plant & Coal Minein room 2.

 

A trip was made to Alan Graziano's to pick up the 3 mainstructures for the 1st part of of the table 2 area. In the mean time 2 ABBA repair shops have been designed and the first one in under construction. An Auto plant has also been designed and is in like for construction for the table 2 area. A transfer table to feed a 12 stall Diesel Fueling and repair shop for 36 Diesel's at a time has been designed and is close to fabrication. A 33" Round Table has been bought and will feed a 10 stall Roundhouse & a 6 Stall Light Roundhouse for small repair. The round houses have also been designed and are in the Que.

 

In Jan of 2013 Room 3 bench work has started and some placement of our Village has started including the AGQ2 from Train Worxin Dallas,

 

Some pictures of these areas will follow below.

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It is very well done.

 

May I ask what radius you had underneath the three big blue engines? In the refinery area on the S Curve?


I recognize and remember some of your work from the pictures. The Power Plant is a favorite.

 

It is a inspiration to me and I thank you. All I have is 7 by 18 and am getting ready to settle on about 54 and 60 inch radius... I just hope it works out, hence by radius question to you.

Thank you everyone for your comments. I love the night pictures a bunch also. I need to get the buildings in the village powered up.

 

Lee we will have 3 main lines coming around the refinery. All track is Gargraves and Ross Switches. The 3 around the refinery will be O-72 (INSIDE TRACK) O-89 (MIDDLE TRACK) O-96(OUTSIDE TRACK. The "S" ARE O-72's. The power plant is a multi fuel operation. It is direct supplied by the coal mine to the right and uses fuel oil from the tanks out front and natural gas as well as a propane air mix all dependent on current fuel prices and supply.

he built those??  wow!  I thought of going to michael's and getting shapes from craft sections.  I know they have cylinders and ball shapes.  so I guess using balsa wood and coating with shiny gloss resin may work to make it look like steel.  that'll be in the future when I start my basement layout. 

Chris

Bill, that all looks great!  It just goes to show the value of patience and planning, in this hobby (something that I wish i had more of!! lol).  The end result will be well worth it.

 

Looking forward to seeing those Canadian National freights consists running thourgh that beautiful landscape.  

 

- Mike

Mike thank you for the nice comments. We ran some nice CN & GTW long trains but got a lot of work done in the corners. Still have A LOT TOO DO but were are chipping awau at it. I have most all of the other lower layout all designed and am trying to make sure the upper level does a good hand shake with the lower levels. Thanks again Mike.

POPS...incredible buildings and that refinery is spot on to the ones we have out here in Richmond, Concord and Martinez CA...

 

Your night photos make it very real...love the size of the station as well...look forward to seeing it develop further....and great to see the young one getting involved...

Nah Joe we would just use that CHUNNEL MACHINE and go right under the lake.  

Actually room 4 does exist butt mt daughter decided it should be a bathroom in place of a train room so unless I can get some intermodal cars to haul TP I don't think room 4 will be a part of the layout.

Got some of my Autoracks now. Still waiting for 4 more so I will have 6 CN & 6 GT to run with about 20 MTH racks. Go to get that Auto Plant going so I can place in at the end of room 2.

Hi Jim, Thanks!! The tags will be great just let me know the cost. Thanks for your help.

Chad is pretty handy and he has been living under the tables hetting the buildings fired up. We have tried to allow space for the wiring as we have gone along by placing holes in the bench work as we have been building. Alex is still small enough to get around pretty well under every thing. Also Alan has prewired all the buildings for us so it more of connecting up sections.

Bill....I just saw this thread!!  Sorry for not commenting earlier......sure looks great and is coming along just fine.  Wish you lived closer and hopefully some day we will be able to get together.  Don't forget....there is a train meet in St. Louis this coming weekend and a MA3R open house at Alex's layout....

 

Alan

eliot thank you very much. We have so much yet to do but it feels good to look back over time and see our progress. As you know from building your own wonderful layout slow and steady is not always bad in the end. My son in law works full time and my grandson is only 9 but would like to think of himself as 20 so to get us all on the same page and in the basement is a real event somedays . It has been a great project for us all and Alex(9 year old) has learned so much to take on his life journey.

 

Thank you again for your very nice comments. Bill

Alan thanks for your comments. Yes I don't think there are a lot of O gauge layouts in my neck of the woods. Lots of HO but my poor eye sight gives me enough issues at O let alone HO. I have seen the emails about the St. Louis show( 8 hours for me) and Alex's open house which I hope he will video for those of us who can not make it. I saw his update on here just the other day and WOW he really does have a great layout.

 

I try to work every day on something for the layout. I try to work second shift on it and first shift on things for my real job...home, cars, yard, snow removal AND OF COURSE honey do's etc

 

Alan thanks again for your nice words. I saw your Deep Water Harbor and it looks GREAT! I do have a place for a water front and some Truss Bridges crossing it but it is a couple phases away from coming on line.Bill

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