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My layout is 30” x 96”.I plan to use scenic-painted profile boards to resemble a diorama. When I’m done, the layout will be viewable from all four sides so I’m going to build a cage of ½ inch copper tubing to hang dimmer controlled halogen floods over the layout. The lighting will be hidden by...

I call to the stand, doctorwayne. doctorwaye, can you tell us what you do vis a vis 'easements'. Until I invented the gizmo I did just that, using 2 inch dressmaking pins into the foam to hold the track along the center line. When I put the gizmo on the layout lines, I wasn't impressed...

Are easements required for both sectional and flex?

It was Chaparral's post yes, but the pond and layout are not mine. They belong to Harold Minkwitz at the website below. It's an amazing site I found describing what you asked about. Here is the home page http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/main_page/

I hope you haven't confused Chaparral with someone who has talent, ability and skill. Chaparral can only dream about such beautiful and creative work, because my layout exists only in the cobwebs of my mind.

Yup, look here! http://pacificcoastairlinerr.com/scenery/ballon_pond/

Notwithstanding I posted the address of a site that deals directly with the easement thing, AND provided details on a jig to employ, I must say: Do your roads run more smoothly today than years ago, before formulae with two or three variables was introduced! Even *For Real Roads* squeal and...

Sorry, forgot where I was going with this.

Never mind. I Googled easements and found: trackplanning.com/easements.htm Has an animated desc and a good text desc-at least I think so. Have a look too, at the gizmo I use - 'A radius gauge' under Tips and Tricks. All you are trying to do is to touch the circle with a straight line...

What's an easement. Is it the area between a set of parallel tracks? Got a sketch or something?

Definately put the layout on wheels. Park it a differant way occassionaly so when your visitors enter the room they'll say " Oh, you've added something," or "That valley wasn't here before" or "From this angle the river looks really deep".

www.the-gauge.com

31 x 30 with a 7x8 bump-out! jawdrop Are you using 75 or 100 lb rail?

Yeh, so, I’m into model railroading: I’ve got couple rolls of unsqueezed Charmin towels, 1/2 case of industrial brown paper towels, part bag of hydrocal, 20 lbs of plaster, $500.00 worth of medical plaster gauze, 20 lbs of drywall mud, I don’t know how many #4 coffee filters, an apple box full...

I can't spring for DCC. I'm looking forward to my inhertance so I change out all those offshore couplers and trucks. I'm running a loop till I steal enough grocery money to buy 8 turnouts. It's a TEENY loop - model railroad track is the same price as 100 lb rail. Now I find out that TEENY, but...

Using HO dimensions in N pre-supposes pennman wants to copy a large HO layout to a large N layout. That's nice if you have the space. If that's the case, the dimension swap thing works. If not, stop thinking of the plan as an “HO” plan. It's simply 'a plan'. White out or delete the HO dimensions...

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Lottsa Q&A ying and yang about this stuff, kind of confusing. N is 1/160 1 foot on the model represents 160 actual feet HO 1/87 1 foot on the model represents 87 actual feet) Roughly 1/2 of HO = N two times N = HO EG: HO minimum radius >18 " N minimum radius >9" As they say, that's my 2 cents...

Graffiti on my property is not art No one abused us, that’s hype! We had love and discipline. Hysteria, extremism and agendas have begat a generation of rude, dispassionate and ill-mannered brats. I feel somewhat avenged knowing the only memories of 'childhood' these micreants will have is one...

I have just learned that a very close friend had to put his wife of 42 years into a full care facility. We knew it would happen, but it still struck us deeply. On Christmas morning last year, the wife of another very close friend died of a heart attack brought on by a short severe respitory...