K & W HO Scale Model Railroad, Construction Update #10 - More benchwork, control systems, Lamar, CO
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- This will be a regularly updated record of the construction process of my model railroad layout. Details are listed below:
Scale: HO
Design: Triple deck, around the walls with a peninsula and two helices
Era: 1980's to Modern Day
Roadnames: Missouri Pacific, Southern Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Santa Fe, BNSF
Style: Prototypical-Freelance
Size: 26'x15' with a 14'x5' leg
Construction: Combination shelf and box frame
Materials: 1/2" plywood base with varying thicknesses of foam board subroadbed, over 1x and 2x lumber frame
Track: Atlas Code 83 in Staging and helices, Micro Engineering Code 83 on the main lines, Code 70 everywhere else
Minimum Radius: 26"
Minimum turnout frog: #6
Lighting: LED fixtures and strip lights
Operating System: DCC NCE PowerCab with booster(s)
Nice layout
Thank you!
Great update. You’re really moving along on this build, it looks fantastic. This is going to be so much fun to operate.
Thank you! I'm afraid once I get La Junta yard built, ops for fun will start eating into construction time!
Great to see updates and progress, I wish I could’ve documented my fathers build from the early stages. Keep ‘em coming buddy😊
Thank you! Will do!
I made mention on someone's layout about the unsightly wood screws used on their fascia not long ago. I tried to be tactful in my comment, but it was clear that the builder of that layout, while doing some nice modeling, simply phoned in the fascia. I suppose it's a pet peeve of mine. There are two things that can make or break even the best modeler's layout, IMHO. One is backdrop. If you're not an artist, don't paint a backdrop. A plain blue backround looks better than a poorly painted backdrop. The other is fascia. Layouts are for running trains and having fun, but they are also furniture in your basement. What you are doing with your layouts fascia is well thought out and nicely presented. Looking forward to your progress.
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment. I am looking forward to adding proper backdrops for the middle level once the upper level is in place. The blue wall is ok for now, but the wall itself is inconsistent because I didn't want to waste the time or materials for a consistent wall when I was going to add hardboard in front of it anyway. Now that I am running a few trains though, it's starting to annoy me. I'm with you on painted backdrops. Mine will be this same blue color until I can add photo realistic backdrops. They just look too good not to use.
Great progress, I did the same with the train plan, printed it out to let me know where I was 😊
Thanks! It certainly helps.
Good to see progress. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Great update excellent progress
Thank you!
Good progress & planning
Thank you! Sometimes I fool myself into thinking I know what I'm doing! LOL
Great update! Excited for you.
Thank you! I'm excited too!
Great progress..
Thank you!
Nice update 👍
Thank you!
Building helix's if fun to do, and so many diffferent ways to construct them. Your method would be a lot easier than using all threaded rods and adjusting the heights. Looking good !
I have been curious about that. Or the method of cutting all the helix pieces with straight edges?
Get R done 👍🏻
Will do!
Thanks for sharing. Have subbed to you. Stay safe.
Thanks!
The town at the Kansas/Colorado state-line is named Kanorado. Western Kansas has Sunflower Processing Plants. Making sunflower oil and sunflower seeds and I think bird seed ingredients, too?
That makes sense.
Other than the Royal Gorge route that you can't see from Highway 50, I got video of most of the railroad tracks west of where the tracks come back out of the canyon on Highway 50 to Salida,CO. I also have video of the old Denver & Rio Grande line along highway 160 from Del Norte to South Fork,CO. I also have video footage of Western Kansas and Kyle Railroad at Phillipsburg, KS. Even got some of the yards at North Wichita where the old grain elevator is that they are currently destroying.
Cool. I look forward to traversing the entire route soon so I can get some still photos of the locations I am modeling for both site and background references for the layout. Google Earth has been helpful, but obviously doesn't cover all the necessary angles and you can't print "street view" shots.
End of the peninsula, build that concrete plant southeast of Pueblo! You also have the steel mill just south of Pueblo?
Definitely building the Portland Cement plant...the steel mill is out, can't find any of the Walther's kits. It's okay though, I found several smaller industries located right around the Pueblo yard that will do just fine.
I call them finishing washers. Distribution warehouse, Plastic pellets?
Ah yes...I think it even says that on the package! Next time I'm in Lamar, I'll knock on the door and ask! LOL
Where are you located? In Wichita?
Yessir.