Robert Meyer's layout is really looking good!

Wow! Nice work. Smooth lines. It fun to see how others design their layouts. Thanks!

Alice is the roads Shop Superintendent!

Thanks Robert for sharing your layout with us. It's going to be fabulous.

       
       


For sure Joe- glad you enjoyed It. Soon I will begin my own layout.

I am officially impressed.  Five hours flat from mostly subroadbed to fully scenicked?

 

All models and the railroad itself look great.

Very nice layout.

Very neat carpentry!  Way to go!!

Now, if only I could enlarge the trackplan on the wall.

Ed

Erik thanks for posting the pics what a great looking layout. what is the size of the area that the layout is in as well as what radius is he using.

Erik,

 

I an tell your friend is doing a very nice job of construction,

what part of D&RGW is he modeling. Love to see it, former Denver

and Evergreen resident.

 

ncng

Grass Valley, CA

Thanks very much for the photos of what looks like an outstanding layout in the making.  Thanks also for the shots of the Lynn Wescott L-girder benchwork.

 

Looking forward to more photos as work continues.

Great work so far.

Lots of curved plywood!

 

What are the overall room dimensions please?

OGR forum,

Attached is the plan for my "Rio Grande O Scale Division" now under construction.  Very loosely based on the D&RGW from Helper, Utah up Soldier Summit.  Double track main and two sets of twin tunnels as on the prototype.   Gives me the added bonus of running Utah Ry coal trains with Alco RSD 4/5s.  Overall dimensions 34’ x 24’.  Minimum mainline radius is 60” on outer main.  Best I could do and still maintain adequate aisles.  Wish I could have made it at least 68” radius.

Bob

It looks like and interesting design. The benchwork is very nice and the plywood looks like it was CNC routed. Looking forward to seeing the progress.

Bob's track plan

I knew that a lot of you guys were expert modelers, BUT, look at all that lumber construction !!!   Bob-- are you a Carpenter by profession ??  Amazing !  Beautiful work!

KRK

This is an absolutely brilliant layout plan.  In my limited view, there are a lot of parallels to what Robert Meyer is doing and what Christopher is doing on his N&W layout. 

 

• Both track plans utilize adequate radii to be able to run some fairly sizable motive power, and full length passenger cars.
• Both track plans model specific prototype roads, with close attention paid to scenic details that make / will make the viewer "feel" like they are in the respective locations.
• Both layouts feature absolutely wonderful attention to detail in the construction of the benchwork and beyond. 
• Neither layout requires a field house to house the layout. 

 

Views of layout plans and photographs like this really make me want to reconsider O scale, but I am way too far gone down the HO path to go back.  So, I will have to live vicariously through others excellent modeling. 

 

I hope some magazine would feature both of these layouts at some point.  Both layouts represent the best that O scale has to offer.  I can't thank you all enough for allowing us to see such fantastic modeling on this forum, with Eric's photographs being the final icing on the cake.  

 

This thread, and John Sethian's excellent how-to on his eight axle flat car were outstanding reading on a rainy Saturday morning in Chicago. 

Regards,

Jerry

 

I agree, excellent plan being well executed.

 

Fellow 0 scalers tempted to emulate this track plan in general terms for another prototype, or "freelanced prototype", but with greater traffic density than the DRGW will note the possibility exists to extend the helix down a level or two to provide a complete lower level devoted to staging, with the reversing loop in the other room;  a wye connection, at the expense of the two existing inner loop tracks, could provide access from either the Helper or Summit directions.  Alternately, if it were acceptable to run all trains via the staging level, the inner tracks could be replaced by a second helix, which would improve access and make civil engineering easier, especially allowing for minor adjustments of the helixes' -- er, helices' -- gradients.  Of course, all this costs more time and complexity in construction, but it is 'free' in terms of required room area.   Just a thought.

 

Best rgds, SZ

The pic immediately above looks like either Bond or Minturn, CO.    Totally cool......

Dig the auxiliary water car tagging along behind the L96 2-8-8-2!