Layout Thread Revisited
I thought that I would check out this old thread with the thought of updating it a bit, only to find that I could not edit the old posts since the forum has been upgraded. Links in the first post on page one were either dead or out of date. Perhaps by posting revised links here, you can still navigate to the old threads....
I have become involved with the planning and construction of three N-scale layouts since 2000. For want of a better name, I'm going to call the modular layout the
Oregon Western Lines Modular Layout. (More about why I plan to call it the Oregon Western Lines Modular Layout later.) This is an N-scale layout made from modules that we have taken to train shows such as the Great Eastern Oregon Train Fair in 2004 and 2005. It is more portable than the Canyon Mt. N-gineers layout (that has some modules, but they have become more permanent than portable).
A second layout that I helped develop was built with the purpose of it becoming a interactive display for the customers in the John Day Dairy Queen. It was patterned after the
Oregon & Northwestern Railroad which was a railroad in the local area until the early 1990's.
There were no boxcars for the Oregon & Northwestern Railroad, so I commissioned Micro-Trains to produce a special run of them for this railroad. That special run got me started on the
Oregon Western Lines Collector Series. There have been 6 cars in the series to date (ONW, Union Railroad of Oregon, and 4 City of Prineville boxcars) with three Oregon Western Lines boxcars to come out in December 2007.
This thread is about the Canyon Mt. N-gineers' layout, so I'll not link it except to say that some old pictures of this layout can be found in the link in my signature. Newer pictures will be found after this post when I get the time to locate them and attach them here.
Work has really slowed on this layout primarily because I have not been as dedicated to the project as I have been in the past. I have been spending more time with my family than with the railroad for the last year. Things are not stagnant, but they have been very sluggish.
Here are a couple of pictures that I found that may be of some interest.
The first shows some of the background and mountain building work that I was doing just before the distractions began.
The second picture shows the La Grande Yard in the foreground with the mountains from the first picture in the background. There is actually an aisle between, but it is not evident in the picture.
Another reason why there are not as many pictures in this thread as before is that I have started using a different digital camera, and I haven't taken the time to sufficiently learn how to get those pictures into the proper form for posting. Over time perhaps....