J & R, work in progress

Track plan

Trainiac77:

Below are a couple of sketches of the track plan (very rough, and those elevations are just approximations...I haven't measured them).

One shows the visible track (black for mainline, red for mine train, green for logging switchbacks) and the other shows the hidden tracks in blue (1 helix at each end and a set of 5 (not 4 as I said earlier, doh!) hidden staging tracks).

The mine spur is mostly hidden (it starts down near the bottom right) until it emerges from the "view break" mountain in the middle.

Trying to show it all on one drawing got kind of busy :-).

Does this help?
 

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Jandr,

Thanks for the plans. It really gives perspective to all the other pictures. Did you come up with this or was it a prototype? Either way it's great! I'm in between layouts (and trying to sell my house!) so I'm just tucking those ideas away when I'm able to build the next layout. Yours seems to have the type of setting I want for the next one. Keep the pictures coming!
thanks again,
trainiac77
 
Trainiac77:

The J&R is a totally freelanced railroad. No prototype. I just like steam and logging....and given the space this is what made sense to me. Hope you are looking for a house with an appropriate train area :-).
 
jandr said:
Trainiac77:

The J&R is a totally freelanced railroad. No prototype. I just like steam and logging....and given the space this is what made sense to me.
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That's my style as well, freelance what fits in the space you have to work with.

jandr said:
Hope you are looking for a house with an appropriate train area :-).
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One of the first priorities on my approval list! (Now if I could only convince my wife!:rolleyes:)
 
planning scenery

I'm planning the scenery for the logging part of the J&R. Attached below are some powerpoint drawings I've made to help me visualize what it will look like when it is done, and to help plan where to build supports, etc. My friend Patrick is an excellent modeler and will be helping me get started the right way on this.

The plan is to build minimal wood supports, but mostly to use high density foam core, 2" thick, set on edge and glued to the supports. Over that is attached light fiberglass material used for screen doors. Over that is plaster soaked gauze to build the hard shell. Pretty standard as I understand it (this is my first serious scenery attempt).

The drawings are based on photos of the benchwork, with semi-transparent layers drawn over it, so I can still see where the track is, etc.

Any advice? This heading in the right direction? Other ways to do this?
 

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I'm a software guy too. There are probably better tools (photoshop so you can layer?) but I don't have any of those. Powerpoint is my only drawing tool (and it is pretty limited, but at least I already have it). Transparency was a big help as it let me kind of have pseudo layers without losing track of where I was relative to the real layout.

I'm getting pretty antsy to have scenery, let me tell you!
 
That is looking soooooo sweet...!!! I didn't know Powerpoint could be used like that...Very clever...(But of course...you're a MRroader....). Can't wait to see some scenery to "flesh out" the benchwork...though your benchwork is a work of art by itself...!!! :thumb:
 
jandr said:
I'm a software guy too. There are probably better tools (photoshop so you can layer?) but I don't have any of those. Powerpoint is my only drawing tool (and it is pretty limited, but at least I already have it). Transparency was a big help as it let me kind of have pseudo layers without losing track of where I was relative to the real layout.

I'm getting pretty antsy to have scenery, let me tell you!
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A suggestion for a better FREE tool to try is paint.net This is very similar to MS paint but has more functionality.

http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
 
JandR....Long time no see....Where have you been keeping yourself..?? We'd sure be pleased to see any further progress you've made on this great layout....sign1
 
Steamhead: Thanks for checking in. Sadly I've been not able to work on the J&R for a little while. Hopefully that will change as I get some time over the next few weeks. Next up is putting scenery in the logging area.
 
Man nice layout you are working on my dream layout cause I've always wanted to do a logging layout. I love the switchbacks! Unfortunately I don't have the time space or money to build a layout so I'm stuck here drooling over your great work wall1 :wave:

-Justin
 
AmericanAirFan said:
Man nice layout you are working on my dream layout cause I've always wanted to do a logging layout. I love the switchbacks! Unfortunately I don't have the time space or money to build a layout so I'm stuck here drooling over your great work wall1 :wave:

-Justin
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Justin

Drool no longer. Take a look at http://www.carendt.com/ for ideas of layouts for small spaces and budgets. Some of them (pizza designs) take less than $10 of track at retail prices. A shelf layout like the Gum Stump & Snowshoe takes a 6ft long bookshelf, and 5 turnouts, and would make an excellent little logging layout. The Mower Lumber Co takes 3 turnouts and fits on a 9" x 48" bookshelf. Either of these could give you a year of building pleasure, and could cost less than $200, everything included (assumes you had nothing to start with). Where there's a will, there's a way.

yours in training
 
pgandw said:
Justin

Drool no longer. Take a look at http://www.carendt.com/ for ideas of layouts for small spaces and budgets. Some of them (pizza designs) take less than $10 of track at retail prices. A shelf layout like the Gum Stump & Snowshoe takes a 6ft long bookshelf, and 5 turnouts, and would make an excellent little logging layout. The Mower Lumber Co takes 3 turnouts and fits on a 9" x 48" bookshelf. Either of these could give you a year of building pleasure, and could cost less than $200, everything included (assumes you had nothing to start with). Where there's a will, there's a way.

yours in training
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Awesome man thanks for the link!
 
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