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Good luck with the new layout. Age and experience can be a good thing! Not to mention a few good friends to ask for advice!

On my last layout, I had 33" radius everywhere that was visible, and even a 40" radius on a couple of spots. The tigtest hidden was 23", in the lower spiral tunnel. It was even on a 2.2% grade.

That is an awesome looking little junk yard! Very nice work.

There is lots of good talent here, look around, and you will be sure to learn new stuff all the time.

He did incredible work, it was truly a loss for the hobby.

Looks like a good start!

I'd go with the Super Chief for sure. You might not think you will ever need all that it has to offer, but you might suprise yourself, I did!

-The old layout was 26'x26', but it was double deck, about 400' of mainline. -It is DCC, I use a DigiTrax Super Chief system. -Other than the grain elevator, there will be a large yard with lots of industrial switching. The staging yards may have some industry on the too, so they will be a...

The layout is in a basement 33'x32' with a 8'x8' bump out. It is going to be a single deck point to point with a 6 track staging yard at each end, and a large yard in the middle. The staging yards will be double ended and the tracks should be 16-18' long each. Most of the layout will be built on...

It's time to start a thread to show the progress of the new layout. It will be called the Mountain Subdivision, set in the Canadian Rockies, well at least most of it will be. I would like to have a grain elevator module, so I might go a bit to the east with half the layout! Here the first...

Looks great, as far as the DigiTrax system goes, I would go with the Chief. It has way more features that you might think you will need right now, but believe me, as you get more and more locomotives and start mixing different brands with each other, lots of those features will be very handy...

Looks good, I love GP38-2's, you have a good fleet going there! Can't wait to see the progress!

What does everyone use to support your layouts? I just built a combination of shelves and legs for my last layout, but this one is going to be modular, so I'm looking for some different ideas. Thanks in advance!

Very nice looking layout!

I got most of the basement drywalled last night, this time, I'm doing that 1st! Since I'm only doing a single level layout, the wall will be the back drop. After it's all done, I'll paint the walls sky blue, and paint scenery on that.

Hello Ray, nice to see your layout again! Still looks as incredible as ever!

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I've posted. I have checked in once and a while, but been very busy with moving and getting the new place all finished. Now that that's all done, it's time to start planning the new layout! I've started building the benchwork for the main yard/staging...

Here is one idea I'm thinking of. It is a simple point to point, but the staging yards are beside each other, and could be finished as a real working yard, complete with a switcher crew, wye, engine facility and some industrial. -There is a paper mill west of the staging yard also, a switcher...

I'll make a work bench somewhere, and the walls are just framed and insulated, no drywall. I don't plan on being at this house too long, so what ever I come up with, it will have to be a bit portable this time!

Here is a blank page of the space I have to work with in the new place. The dimensions are in feet, each square is 1 foot, and the 2 black dots are steel posts. There is room under the stairs to run under, if need be! It's about 4'-3" high under the landing. -What are your ideas? I've drawn...