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Liven; Thank you very much. :) I would expect not many in general I'd hazard a guess, without going and consulting my track plan information, at roughly 2 to 3 cars per industry - more at some points such as the Gravel Company and Cement Factory and the Oil Fields - less at places such as...

David; Definitely good advice. I plan on starting to work through Grewsome's thread later today a lot to digest there. Thanks for the help. Peace. Coyote

Loren, I will definitely take a look at your thread thanks for pointing me to it. Yes livestock will be coming to the stockyard... I plan on having a piece of an ranch modeled in the area that the small hexagon is at on the map just up from the gravel company.. the hexagon is planned to be a...

Hello Gang, As some of you may know my OL and I are currently building an HO Scale layout in a spare bedroom of our house that we have been converting to a Train Room. The Layout is set in 1953-54, in northern Arizona and is the old AT&SF main running through a small town . I've read through...

Russ, Great point and one that I for one will be making note of.. I'm considering doing a re-build on the gate with slightly better materials and -much- less of an angle... you are 100% correct (as usual) about the "stabber" my arm is still healing and it's been puled up pronto, hence the...

Kurt, Runs with Bears, Cedarcreekrr, Miles and Ralph; Gentlemen thank you all! Your kind praise leaves me deeply touched. It really wasn't that big of a deal and I have almost no carpentry experience so I have to honesty say to any and all of those of you thinking about or wishing to make...

My plans are for 1953-1954 late spring/early summer. Lets me run Diesel and Steam and it's a great part of the Fabulous 50's just before Route 66's first death knell came from the beginning of the Interstate highway system that came in 1956 with the authorizing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act...

Russ, Good advice, thank you. If I can get my hands on some more lumber I may redo and put your advice into play, it makes a lot of sense... Yeah I found out I needed to round off the "Stabber" the hard way already :curse: Thanks again, your comments are always insightful and useful...

Swing Gate 01/07/07 Views from inside the layout looking out Views from inside the layout looking out Up view of the under side of the gate Right Hand Supports Left Hand Supports

Swing Gate 01/07/07 Gate on "Docking Station" shelf Gate on "Docking Station" shelf Open "Docking Station" shelf. Views from inside the layout looking out Views from inside the layout looking out

Swing Gate 1/07/07 Hello again Gang; Well I got a wild hair last night and I decided to try and make the swing gate for the layout on my own - so I dug up some scrap lumber (from when I tried to test build a piece of bench work back near the beginning of last year), salvaged up a good hinge...

Joesho, The plan is for a small Northern Arizona town (Piedmont), a typical small western town in the 50's with some of the tourist glitz of sitting alongside Route 66 - a goodish stretch of desert scenery with a dash wash (Dead River) and then a section of county road area with some...

John, Thanks for the info, yes I'm afraid it is a little late now to remove the 1/4" birch... I originally added it for stabilization and support of tortoise machines. Hopefully it wont prove to be a problem, but I am enjoying the support it is giving me when laying down the foam to get a...

Miles; Thank you sir. Yes the colors were picked out to blend in, hopefully with the scenery and to give it a slight early fifties feel and the OL did a great job picking out the face plates for the plugs and switches all very Art Deco, she also found the lamp. It's great to have a wife that...

Lynn, Thanks, it was an uphill battle to find a way to utilize as much space as we could while still leaving room to work and good isles for movement around the layout once it's in operation but I think we've got a pretty good setup now space wise at least. :) I'm hoping to start doing some...

Dig Cat it has been a real gas to crank this box together rather than just lip flappin about it man. Now if I can just haul it past the all show and no go and get her really bookin then my chick and I will have a real boss show daddy-o, you dig? Well man thanks for the heavy post your a real...

Hiscopilot; The OL and I have an empty nest so we decided to go for the spare bedroom as the room to convert... We looked first at converting the Garage and when our estimates topped 5k we walked away from that idea fast. As far as the expense of the conversion on the Spare Bedroom it...

One last thing for tonight and I'm done gang. This is my tribute to 2006! We started 2006 with this - And ended 2006 with this- Now that was one heck of a year! Here's to 2007 being even better and a salute to all of you who realized your dreams even a little bit last year...

That's that now to start laying out the plan and setting down track! Peace. Coyote

Update - Foam It's me again Margret... Hi Gang.. sorry been out so long, had a busy Christmas and then got an unexpected "present" of having my computer crash and burn; it's been an uphill battle getting it back to working condition. That all said here is the latest update on the Route 66...