Just wondering if anyone still comes on this section???

Im looking for some stuff thats why im asking.

Looks like they do.

I do sometimes, i would like to look into starting the hobby, wife & health permitting.

Just wondering if anyone still comes on this section???

Im looking for some stuff thats why im asking.

I keep an eye out for new activity here. Anything I can do to help you?

maybe some topic discussions like
fav ways to do groundwork or trees
fav way to weather box cars-would translate easily to other models
fav way to do water
fav way to weather buildings
any scratch built items of plastic etc

maybe some topic discussions like
fav ways to do groundwork or trees
fav way to weather box cars-would translate easily to other models
fav way to do water
fav way to weather buildings
any scratch built items of plastic etc

Sounds good to me! Feel free to open some up. :thumbsup:

probably a bunch of lurkers like me just check in... start talking about something... post a pic or two... and i bet things start to happen.

I check in here periodically.
Right now I have bought a few of these; http://scenearama.woodlandscenics.com/index.cfm

To try my hand.
There are mountains, water, and other terrain Ideas on that site.
Not too sure how it will work with my buildings, cars and trains.
But as soon as I have a place to work on these things and build my little towns.
All that is left is to learn how to post pictures from the camera to this site.
Richard

I don't do layouts, so I'll leave those topics to others. When I get some of my kitbashed and scratchbuilt engines to a certain stage of completion, I'll post about them here.

Okay no one else has posted anything guess I'll start. For some time I have been working on a shelf type switching layout in my garage, my first attempt had to be taken down because of a couple of small mistakes that caused big problems. 1 some how in building the shelf I managed to let one end develope a slight dip so when I parked a car it sometimes would roll off on its own. 2 I set it up to operate the turnouts by push rods, then I added a stream and wiped out two of the rods and that was the last straw.
This is a view of the finished West end of the old Farmersville Jct RY.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6152/fv36le9.jpg
Here is an overhead view with the stream I nessed up (yes the water is green)
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6844/fv34ko9.jpg
So I took the layout down to the frame and started over this is the scale drawing I nade to work from for the new expaned Farmersville Jct. RY.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2492/farmjct2qh8.jpg
This is the added staging yard with car storage.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2410/layout28hf1.jpg
Here is the new West end of the layout with fuel company siding and highway overpass, in the distance is the lumber supply company
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/33/layout41fy0.jpg
the only items that were purchased are the detail parts around the fuel company office, the telephone poles, LP gas storage tank and the overpass, everything else has been made from scratch.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1614/layout42br2.jpg
Here is the lumber company still under construction, and this time around I installed under the table turnout switched with push button controls mounted on the face of the layout.

glad to see some life in here.

I just moved into my house a few months ago, so im trying to figure out a track plan for the room i got, but still have no clue.


But i have been picking up rolling stock, engines ect in the mean time.

Robert i like the looks of your shelf layout.

I want to build a layout that has plenty of switching, and at least 2 main lines going around the whole layout.

Looks great... and yes there are lurkers here.

I am hoping to get a 5 foot x 9 foot going in the basement based on a plan in the old Atlas Track Plan book.

I will shoot photos as the project continues. Going to attempt DCC.

Parts Pit Mike