ok, this will be mylayout thread , where i post pics of my progress.

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well the layout is 4 X16 feet long. i got 720 feet of track down!.......scale feet that is.....hehehe. ok ok, just 60 inches. will have mountains, bridges, tunnels, a town, with passanger depot, a biker bar with the little n scale motorcycles out front, and the WS people set "rebels" out front as they have leather jackets on. will have an turntabe and roundhouse somewhere, and a yard, coal mine,

will have 2 mainlines, one passanger, one fraight that can run non stop if i want, and i will beable to run switching ant the same time,


pics to come later on today, but now i got to get busy!:thumb:
 

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well i should have a coal mine, turntable and a few other odd things at my doorstep tomarrow.... cant wait!
 

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Well what you've got looks good so far! I'm not sure where you've having problems but make sure to keep the image size below 640x440 pixels and a file size of 66K.
 

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well, i need 2 more pieces of flextrack to have the first mainline done. i ran out. then i can start laying track on the 2nd mainline, and siddings and branchs to coal mine, yard, turntable, and whetever i decide on.

as soon as i can get the wife sat down long enough to resize the pics.
 

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well, i stopped at my LHS, picked up 12 more pieces of flextrack. 2 box cars, and some paint..... so ill be busy this weekend....lol
 

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ok, took some more pics, still to big, and the cam is on the smallest setting, wife says if i take her out tonight she will resize them tomarrow...... so i guess im taking her out.....lol....

shes just thrilled to have a 4' X 16' layout in our bedroom i tell you!...... lmao
 

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Cannonball said:
She's a keeper! :D

well i dont know, i spent 50.00 at the hoppy shop today, when it rang up i thought she was going to beat the #$%* out of me!


in her defince, it has been 50 to 100 buck a week for the last month tho..... i guess i better get her a very, very, very nice X-mas gift now.....lol
 

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ozzy said:
in her defince, it has been 50 to 100 buck a week for the last month tho..... i guess i better get her a very, very, very nice X-mas gift now.....lol
I got my wife cookware!
All this hard work building railroads makes a man hungry!
:D