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OK. So I began last November with a fairly simple loop with one switch and a siding just to run my one loco and a handful or cars and now I am getting serious about a micro layout. Have new cars and a small switcher and the layout is coming together. I am looking to do a double loop with one...

Dumb question, just how flexible IS flex track? Thus far I have only tried regular Atlas code 80 snap-track and find connecting sections is just "lovely".

thanks all. I should add that in addition to a Consol 2-8-0 I also have a SW-1200 switcher (both in Southern Green and Gold livery) and had in mind the MDC Overton or Overland paasenger cars. I know they were not widely used in the east but as jon-monon points out they are intended to be...

My intent is to work in the early transition era for the SR Piedmont - late 40's to early 50's. The idea is that this would be a largely "private siding" display that might have been used in that time frame as an excursion run or as an indication that Wm. DuPont had come from Deleware to...

Perfect - thanks very much that is just what I was looking for. :thumb:

I am trying to pin down the approximate vintage of Overland and Overton cars in terms of what years they were in service and when they were phased out. Any one able to help?

I use one that I bought at a show this past winter from an outfit in PA that does the rounds of shows around the Baltimore-Washington area. Works very well, it came with one shape wire and two unformed pieces for $40. I have used it on my dreaded "white" foam layout (real tiny at 33x31") and...

Me too! WinXP using Firefox (new Mozilla) works great!

I took more then 100 shots at that location. It includes a small baggae shed on an abondoned siding, an old genral store (converted to the Montpelir visitor center) and tow residential buildings flanking the visitor center just across the road from the depot itself. Add the overpass to the...

This is trackside view from the overpass Trackside view of Montpelier depot.

Another depot on the same line Montpelier depot on the ex-Southern Rwy Piedmont division

More buildings This is the saloon end of the string.

Buildings across from the Depot This is the "sanitary grocery" end of the attached buildings

The following are a group of interesting buildings including the Orange VA Southern Rwy depot and a group of commercial buildings directly across the track from it. You can still see the "sanitary grocery" markings on one. The left most building was a saloon.

I have posted some photos of a "village" I intend to model in n-scale. Since there is a spur to a baggage shed from the depot (which was originally constructed by Wm. DuPont in the early 1900's when he owned Montpelier (the former plantation of Pres. James Madison and his family in the 1790-1830...

More of Montpelier Station The current visitor center which until recently was a general store with gas pumps.

The baggage shed and spur for the Dupont estate.

Another group of a very few of the buildings I'll be doing. Took more than 130 shoots and have each building from multiple angles so I should be able to scale them pretty well. One reason I am keen on this "clustered" location is I am working w/a 30' x 33" layout and it will all fit!. Wish me...

Will try the depot shot:

Montpelier Station Haven't posted much as I have been trying to decide what I wanted to model. Made the decision that I would do the old Southern Rwy route between Alexandria VA through Orange VA and Charlottesville. Found a great cluster of building on VA Rte 20 between Orange and C'ville...