OGR Run 300 - New Duckunder Terminal Rwy - additional photos - ONE MORE TIME!

Fredstrains posted:

Fredstrains posted:

Hi Will,

Great job on your Layout!  I especially like your Round House & Turntable!!!  It looks very familiar !!! LOL

Fredstrains

Will,

You never did acknowledge my POST !  Where did you get the Beautiful Roundhouse & Turntable???

Fred

 

Fred, 

Warm greetings to you in Omaha, and thank you for the reminder to reply!  I enjoyed my long trek out to western Iowa several years ago to buy your turntable and roundhouse and to bring them back to Raleigh in my Toyota Sienna. If you recall, they barely fit, even with all the rear seats folded flat into the floor of the van. 

By the way, the indexing feature was so hard to keep aligned that I long ago switched to manually lining up the table track to the outside tracks. That's a lot more fun, anyway, using an HO transformer.

I know it's a long drive, but hope you'll come visit sometime. You will always be welcome.

Wishing you a fine Independence Day week ahead,

So many wonderful aspects to this layout - simply outstanding!

I am curious about that very wide signal bridge that appears in some of the photos - spans several tracks.  Did you build it?  If not, where is it from?

David

That wide signal bridge started out as two from MTH. They were cut and spliced together. It was made for the original DUT and reused on the second. I believe the original bridge was a PRR prototype.

George

Fredstrains posted:

Fredstrains posted:

Hi Will,

Great job on your Layout!  I especially like your Round House & Turntable!!!  It looks very familiar !!! LOL

Fredstrains

Will,

You never did acknowledge my POST !  Where did you get the Beautiful Roundhouse & Turntable???

Fred

 

Fred,

Hope all is well with you in Omaha! 

I apologize.  I did reply, but just realized that it must not have posted to the Forum.  I wrote it on my phone, and perhaps something went awry.

I will never forget my cross-country trek from Raleigh to western Iowa, where you then lived, to buy your turntable and roundhouse driving my Toyota Sienna. I well remember your beautiful house and huge layout, and I recall that you and I weren't sure both big items would fit in my van even with the rear seats folded down!

But they did, and the rest is history.  I have both your turntable and roundhouse on my layout, as you can see.  I long ago gave up fine-tuning the indexing feature on the turntable.  It's a lot more fun to manually align the tracks, anyway.  Just like real life.

Come visit!

Your friend,

Will & George, just was curious about the coal mines & tipples. If I was to incorporate a coal mine into my plans, how much space should be dedicated for that? How much space for the tipples as well? In one of the pictures, was there a pipe(or pipes) running coal or was it water to the tipple?

Dave,

There is no hard and fast rule on space requirements. It depends on the number of tracks, grades of coal, etc. The seven tipples on the layout range from a couple of square feet to twelve square feet plus. The mine on the cover occupies about eight sq ft while Old King Coal is around sixteen. Polecat Peerless is maybe two sq ft.

I don’t recall a pipe but it could be water or probably kerosene from a tank. Kerosene is used to produce “dustless” coal by spraying a coating on it as it is loaded.

There are many books on coal mines and mining. Get two or three for reference.

Hope this helps,

George

Absolutely beautiful Layout !!!!!!

Alex

Alex M posted:

Absolutely beautiful Layout !!!!!!

Alex

Many thanks, Alex. Come visit if you get to Raleigh. 

Thanks George. I actually looked at some material published in the 1970's(an encyclopedia believe it or not), which was pretty detailed. I sort of expected far less but the pictures were very detailed. I'll have to study more, as far as right now everything is research for future use.

WOW! 

Joe Lechleider

Southern Crescent 2 posted:

WOW! 

Joe Lechleider

Joe,

You are always welcome to visit when in Raleigh.  

Best regards,

Will,

I had the good fortune to see your layout in person, a few years ago (2015 ?). I was impressed then and I remain impressed. I am trying to design a new layout, so I looked up your pictures to try and understand how you packed in so much activity into your space.  Thanks for sharing your work.

Eric Wright

Thank you, Eric!  I was happy to do it.  Building both Duckunder layouts was the fulfillment of a lifetime dream, and I enjoyed every second of construction and of operation.  I hope you experience the great satisfaction I did.

Best regards,

Well worth the time to read Will's discussion of the layout, and his interesting life story by following one of the links. Thanks for sharing.

Wow! Breathtaking on my second run through……

Peter

Thank you both for your kind words.  It was great fun to conceive, to build, and to operate!

Will it is nice to be able to revisit your fantastic layout and to see my Grandad’s trailer still going to pick up a load at Planters Peanuts.

We enjoyed reading about some of your exploits and are glad to see that Covid has only slightly slowed down your travels.

In the next few months we plan to begin installing the Suffolk portion of your layout. Finally we are nearing completion of our Roanoke Shops section.

Best wishes to you and George. We hope to finally get to Raleigh anD see his layout this Fall.

Bill and Paula

Thank you, Bill.  I look forward to visiting you when your layout is ready, and I'll try to bring George with me!

Let me know when you're coming to Raleigh.  I can meet you at George's, and we'll catch up.