What did you do on your layout today?

Doing two posts today. This one is for Bryan who is doing the ball diamond. I ran into him at a train get together last night and he wanted some pics of the general layout because it had been many years since he saw it last. So here there are Bryan. Excuse the chaos. Been working on the layout............Paul

Bruce,

The attic is looking more like a layout room all the time.  The curved ceiling joints are cool!

 

Bryan,

The ball field is great!

After taking pics of the layout I got back to work on the station area. I was happy with the second coat of earth color so I sprinkled down some grass foam. Then I added ballast to the tracks. Now I will place the station first drilling some holes to run the wires from it under the table. Didn't finish the one track in front of the station. I ran out of plaster and didn't want to make another batch up till I had a place to use it all. .........Paul

Thanks so much Randy!!!

Jim and I were able to spend a couple hours on the layout last night after he got off work.  We were able to cut the right end yard switch into the mainline.  Then we added the curve tracks for the yard lead and added the first switch at the right hand end of the ladder which finished the first yard through track.  Have some issues to resolve now by doing some major surgery of the next switch to allow 4" spacing instead of the stock 5 1/2" spacing.  Will post some pictures later this evening.

 

Art 

I got the scoreboard covered! 

 

Mitch

Here are three pictures of what we accomplished last night on the Eola Yard. 

 

 

Art

Thanks Mark,

  It feels great to be nearing the end of the hard slugging and on to more detailed work.  I'm more than half way finished applying the white melamine masonite, which is going up far easier than I expected.  I often wonder what type of miserable job it would be to drywall the ceiling instead.  The imaginative use of construction materials ( toot'n my own whistle ) has saved money, time and most importantly my back.  Heat is the only obstacle holding me back at the moment.  Under those circumstances I tackle something less strenuous like these shelves.

 

 

Bruce

 

Paul,
Thanks for the overview pictures really helps visualize everything now.  Layout is looking awesome and definitetly looks different from the last time I saw it.  Keep up the great work.

Hello Everyone. Hear is a video of the progress I have made recently.https://youtu.be/yP37ZWdmePU

Scot - You have made a lot of progress!  That should be very encouraging.  I believe and hope that after you finish painting and get the bench work exposed without the clutter than you will be able to continue make a lot of headway.  Thanks for the video up date and good luck.

 

Art

Doing some rebuilding of a Plasticville city hall to more closely resemble the one in my hometown.

 

Adding a base to raise it about 6' and adding a basement entrance, modified the roof a bit, and will be putting in aluminum framed glass doors fore and aft.

My layout is just a loop of O-72 on the carpet of the guest bedroom right now, but I did add Legacy to it today.

A table doesn't have to be the answer.

Carpet is very quiet in comparison to any table layout. 

I had 0-27 on the carpet for a literal lifetime. At least once a year my whole life, there has been track on the floor somewhere.

  All tracks up and running today, I have 7 lines above the waist. But I still put track on the floor, from time, to time.

I never bent one on the carpet in a derail.

I stumbled and stepped on a plastic tender though.

 

I'm going to toss a throw rug up on a table; just for my old stuff; just for laughs; some day.

 But seriously

Scot,

I agree with Art's statement.  Room preparation is important before getting too far.  It is easier to cover the table with plastic now than later.  I haven't said it before, but I really like your enclosed breezeway for a layout room.  In the daytime you will have plenty of light, and it was practical to cut a hole in the wall to extend into the garage.  I agree, thanks for the video!

I wondered what track you had in the garage.  Thanks for the look see.  It is looking good!

been playing more than working the past few days. haven't touched the layout. but ran trains, haven't touched the station but ran trains yea running trains has been more fun the past 2 days. here's another video my note 4 sitting in the railing on a Lionel sd40t-2 LOL

 

 

https://youtu.be/_-AVBbweoP0

Absolutely nothing.  While my boy has been running trains, more than likely I won't find the time to get down there to do anything until Oct.

The grandkids must have left some kind of portal open as we were inundated with rowdy minions.

 

First they tried to fly the helicopter

then we found them harassing the elephant and giraffes

Finally the local boys in blue improvised and corralled the little rascals

Those little guys are everywhere you look these days!  Now they are invading layouts!  The kids will love them!  Great idea!

My son and grandson are both automotive painters. I took a Plasticville  fire station and redid it to a small paint shop. Jordan is my grandson. I have placed it in a corner of the Raceway part of the layout. Industrial park? The race track and cars at the body shop are  1/64.

Azgary 

Today I finished building a kit for the "Contention City depot", available from Andersen Model Kits here in California. It's a small wooden depot built in 1882. As the Arizona mining town went into a steep decline, the depot was moved to Old Tucson, a movie set & western theme park. Now I need to build it into my southwest desert scenery.

 

On the club front, got the networking configuration squared away for the Legacy WiFi. Works well so far. Waiting for the MTH DCS WiFi interfaces to hit the streets.

 

On the home front, got part of Module #4 of the switching layout framing done. Should have it finished tonight when I get home. After I get Module #5 done I'll go back and start putting the fascia boards on and maybe put track down. Still need to figure out what I want to use for legs. I put the spine and end together Tuesday. Going to put the cross braces and track support in tonight when I get home.

Built a new layout today.  Actually my 3 1/2 year old grandson did most of the work - really.  This is what I love about 3 rail o gauge.  Kids can actually get involved young.

 

Al

 

 

 Fresh out? I'll be watching for your opinion as a user Matt.

   I don't run command, but I like to read about it, and wouldn't mind at look at a new gui. The right one could flip me, you never know.

 And your "reviews" are nicely balanced .

 

 I haven't really looked into it, because I didn't know it was done.

 

That's great Al!  Looks like he is getting into it!

AZGary, it's amazing what can be done with Plasticville, isn't it?  Yours is quite unique.

 

Bob, that is just a lovely station.  I like it - a lot!

 

Al, that is too cool.

Added a corn field.

 

Neal Jeter

Finally got to run trains again. We moved, so I had to tear down my permanent layout. Set-up a carpet central tonight and ran my newly picked up Western Maryland H-9 #839 and WMSR #734. 

Crops look healthy. GMO product from Cargill or Monsanto maybe...  Love those hoppers as well. Nice scene. Can almost see it from Lookout Mountain.

I used to love barn signs....I miss them, sigh.

 

Minions It will be quite a while before this gets old. If ever  

Finished the back city wall on the right field side.

I have the shell off the chassis on an RMT Budd car, and I cut the chasis in two behind one of the trucks, to extend it 1 5/8" to match the length of this LaBelle D&RGW gas electric kit's car body.  There was a couple of companies in Wisc. that made kits for

prototype railroads to convert an old passenger car into a gas electric, and this LaBelle

kit is a model of one the Grande did.  Since the frame has to be extended, so does the

wiring on the RMT chassis, so I have, so far, added two inch wire extensions, by soldering into eight of the wires.  Two more, for the roof lighting may need to be done, to keep it.  Tight squeeze and touchy job.

I spent some time today looking my video monitor. I had better explain. I recently purchased eight (8) video security cameras and a DVR for my subway loops. I ran a test on them all and it looked fantastic. I can now see my entire subway on the monitor. Now, I have to learn how to use the DVR. Man, am I getting computer illiterate lately? Maybe some day I will post some videos on here, once I figure out how to record it.   

ICRE8

I've been eyeballing LaBelle & looking for others with Pre-WWI kits too.

        

 

 

Where did you get these guys?  They look pretty much to scale.  I found some in a game in a toy store.  On the back of the packaging it shows a whole set that only comes with games (Monopoly, Operation, etc).  Those were for Despicable Me 2.  Yours are from the Minions Movie!  Where can I get some?!

John,  They are Walmart exclusives.  They range from about 1" to 1" & 3/8"

 

Kevin

"Exclusive"?  As in "gone & good luck" or as in, if I go into any of the 10 million Wally Worlds I'll find them?  I don't frequent Walmart.  Long story of a boy who grew up in Arkansas....

Supposedly only made for Walmart. I found them online.