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Salutations!

I'm posting this as a more official announcement of the progress of my train layout project, the Burnesyd Magical Muggle Railway.  It's an O Gauge train setup created specifically as a centerpiece / accent for our 2017/2018 Christmas Tree.  It is based around the Lionel LionChief Hogwarts Express.  It will be a constructed display but be able to be easily put away outside of the yuletide season.  For a better idea, I encourage you to visit my project site, http://www.mugglerailways.com.  There is an accompanying YouTube page where I will post announcement videos as well as DIYs / recordings of my construction progress.

I wanted to invite forum members to visit the site and be able to see my progress, as well as have access to the more technical side of what I am doing and perhaps share suggestions, insight or wisdom.  I've been speaking to a fair number of you on a post concerning Hogwarts but wanted to create a post where I can chronicle my progress with everyone more directly.

I encourage everyone to visit the blog and comment or ask questions.  i look forward to sharing my progress and my process with you and definitely learning a lot from the board members as I go.

Currently, my content is only the preliminary comments and history to establish the project and explain what I'm doing.  I've actually completely the initial track layout planning and will be posting my layout schema and the process to determine that within the next week or so.  I have however already created my blueprints and will actually be beginning construction of the display base within the next two weeks as well.

I look forward to seeing how this all ends up!

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Wanted to post this separately, to differentiate it from the announcement post.

A major component of my display will involve articulated components or 'moving parts'.  I have a rough idea of the method and range of motion but since this is my first train layout, its also my first time coming even peripherally close to constructing animated structures and components.  Therefore, I'd love to get input from anyone that has experience with that kind of mechanical engineering on a model train scale.  I'll be talking far more about this in the future, both on this thread and especially on my blog, but thought that I'd reach out early; the better to vet my ideas with people with more experience, especially since this can impact my display construction to an enormous degree.

Thanks for any of your future insight and contributions!

You might be interested in these figures for your project.  Found them at walmart for 97 cents each.  They seem to be pricier online.  Figure selection is very good.  Nearly headless nick, filch, weasley dad and brother as well as the main characters/villains.   Seems to measure to 1.75 inches?  I just got them so I'm hoping they will be close enough to scale when I take them home. 

 

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