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My wife went to the LHS today with her dad to get me my gift for xmas. I gave her a list before she left today of items I need/want for my layout. Surprisingly the store was 'sold out' of everything I wanted... including FOUR FP7A/FP7B CPR set's from Life-like on their 30% off shelf :curse...

its a great table eh?

brand new track. not only filed out any burrs, but also went over them with a briteboy and even sprayed some contact cleaner on them.

very cool system you got going there for staging! inspirational layout. thanks for sharing!

I've been playing around with whats been constructed so far with my fleet of steamers. It seems the ones that got regular use on my old layout are not working so well anymore... My Athearn Challenger is stalling out quite a bit and requires a lil tap to get going. I've tried cleaning the wheels...

Thanks all for the positive comments on the plan. maybe it's not as bad as I thought it was. Anyways, I stayed up till 3:00am last night working on revisions... I just finished revision 9 this morning (the plan posted last night is revision 2 by the way) I think I really got something special...

Thanks Mike! while I don't have everything wired up yet, I have been playing around with the table. It works pretty good. I haven't programed it yet, but so far it seems to function pretty decently. I'm using code 80 track (only code 55 dealer is 45 minutes across the city) so theres a bit of...

This is my new idea for the scenic section of my layout... The old idea was just too convoluted and used way to many grades... helix's... too early for me. Keep in mind the terminal is now constructed... Anyways, lets play color by numbers: green = passenger terminal tracks yellow = freight...

I've decided that I no longer like the layout as it is on paper. ie: everything but the terminal. so once I've finished the terminal I'll look at what I wanna do for the rest. I was thinking a double decked layout... but the terminal already sits 40 inches off the ground! Thats pretty...

snow? YES PLEASE! I love the snow. I'm actually really disapointed we don't have any yet.

thanks! it seems like a double edged sword...because now that means my ballasting has to be have full coverage to cover the areas without the ground cover. I figured out why I have this lul... something about not having snow in Edmonton yet at the end of November.... Still riding my bike!

Not a lot happening in terms of construction right now. I kinda hit a lull I think. Here's the progress so far: Nothings wired up yet for operation, but I wanted to get a sense of what things will look like. So far the only issue I've come across is matching the tracks up for the...

geeze... don't tell anyone theres a recession going on eh? If anyone has any left over Code80 Atlas switches... please let me know... the $25 CAD for a powered, or $19 for an unpowered switch is really hurting me pretty bad as that will end up requiring me to spend almost $300 in switches just...

political discussions are warranting a change in the track plan. The terminal has undergone minor changes shown below. But the rest of the route is being re-designed to allow for more stops and a more scenic ride. And now for todays construction news: Transferring the track plan to the...

thanks! I plan on getting some track actually laid this weekend! I'm currently putting together a few kits to add some visual appeal as well. As for the lot of locos... I think I almost have my full roster. I have: A Kato Mikado 2 Bachmann heavy mountains (that I'll be converting into U1F...

thankfuly the paint is dry. :mrgreen: the trackplan should be a lot of fun. I'm taking the door to the room off to give me more room to build. Just don't tell my wife that k?

Got a bit more accomplished before I went to bed last night. I'm currently trying to figure out how to get the track plan onto the foam accurately from the Winrail9 printout that's currently showing me where everything goes. I'm also debating if I should forgo the roadbed in the yard/terminal...

I'm confused at which 'tunnels' you speak of. The two layers that I'm building currently (the terminal section) are as follows. The Purple layer are staging tracks, while the rest is the main terminal.

Moved into the new house this past weekend and my measurements for the train room match up, so construction begins! I've spent the better part of the last three days picking up materials and slowly putting the bench work together. The above is what I've got done so far. the benchwork is...

This will be my construction thread for my new layout. named the Pacific South Eastern Railway. Obviously inspired by the Pacific Great Eastern, now BC Rail. My layout is a major passenger/freight terminal in a fictional municipality known as 'Great Falls' in British Columbia during the that is...