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Brunton Posted - 07/03/2007 : 06:58:20 AM
I thought I'd inflict on... er, share with everyone my layout construction saga for my in-process Burlington layout, set in the mid-1930s to mid-1940s in Wyoming.
A lot of this stuff is on my website, but certainly not all of it.
I'm going to start at the beginning, with development of the plan for the layout, and add a new "chapter" once or twice a week.
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MarkF Posted - 05/01/2013 : 12:04:32 AM
Looking good Mark! Every little bit you do is a step in the right direction!
jbvb Posted - 04/30/2013 : 07:30:34 AM
Yay progress!
Brunton Posted - 04/30/2013 : 07:07:59 AM
My wife wasn't totally pleased with using this as the main train room when I first proposed it, but it's kind of a white albatross of a room, since neither of us wants a pool table or other big space-eating furniture. So... big space, nothing in it, of course it will become a layout room!

Things have progressed a bit in the last month. A dozen or so 4' strips of cork roadbed has been cut (http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.com/CM%20-%20Roadbed%20Factory.htm, a few sticks of Atlas code 83 track has been laid, and two days ago the first locos ran on their own power (ok, it was back-and-forth on 15' of track, using a DCC system alligator-lead-clipped to the rail ends, but they did run !).

Next up is constructing a few Fast Tracks #8 turnouts for the entry points into Laurel yard.

Here's how things look right now:


And here's a shot of a BLI Mikado on the superelevated curve:
MarkF Posted - 03/25/2013 : 11:55:01 PM
That's your railroad room??? Good grief, that looks like a room in a museum! Very nice! Well Mark, with an atmosphere like that to work in, the layout will be a real show piece. Your off to a great start. Nothing like having friends to help you through this stage.
nhguy Posted - 03/25/2013 : 2:05:41 PM
That sure is a pretty room. Your off to a good start. With friends like that you should have this railroad well on its way to operating is short order.
jbvb Posted - 03/25/2013 : 07:31:34 AM
Good to see the construction. Maybe your helpers would have an easier time coming back for another visit if they car-pooled? That can turn a dull drive into a get-together.

Regarding your plan, conventional wisdom says Thermopolis and Wind River Canyon should be swapped so you don't have to go back and forth to follow a train. But I could easily envision scenery/perspective reasons for doing it your way.
Brunton Posted - 03/24/2013 : 3:09:38 PM
Thanks for the nice comments, Mark & Bill.

Mark, ask and ye shall receive - pictures follow!

Bill, funny you should mention wind. In the first picture below, you can see three of the four ceiling fans that are clustered over the Shobon area. They certainly can replicate the Wyoming "breezes" when they're all cranked up full blast!

Here's an overall shot of the room where the main part of the layout will be. This is a pretty nicely finished room, which means I'll have to be very careful to protect the floor from finish-damaging debris, glue drip and what-not:


I had a work session yesterday (Saturday the 23rd). Five of my modeling friends from Charleston spent two hours on the road (each way!) to come out and help get the construction ball rolling.

By the end of this first session, we had the Laurel benchwork framing complete and risers installed. We also laid in the first two sheets of plywood at the far end (the wide end) of the peninsula, but I took these photos before we did that:


This shot is sighting down the risers to see if the tops line up reasonably well. I think they do:


Here's a shot of the crew. Left to right is Allen, Phil, Jim, John and Jimmy. I hope I can convince them to come back again - in four hours we did what would otherwise have taken me weeks to accomplish! They all said they'd be back, but that's as they were all running for their cars before the two hour trip home!


Later in the evening I screwed the plywood firmly down on the risers. Earlier we'd just had time to set it in place and align it before everyone had to leave.

I'm off to lay out track centers for the big turnback curve at the end of the peninsula - more coming soon (I hope)!
nhguy Posted - 03/24/2013 : 2:18:51 PM
Rooms!?!? Those ******'s! The new plan looks good. It looks like plenty of room for a load out in Powder River. I guess all you have to do to give the layout a great 'feel' is to install plenty of fans for wind in the Wyoming area!
MarkF Posted - 03/24/2013 : 12:17:49 PM
Mark, that is still a nice size layout!!! Nice long runs. I can't wait to see some pictures and follow along with your progress.
Brunton Posted - 03/24/2013 : 07:31:52 AM
quote:
Originally posted by MarkF


STOP! Did you say your layout space isn't big enough??? Well then before you go any further, you need to start looking for a bigger house!
LOL!
Mark, this is a 10,000 (that's ten thousand) square foot house (with the utility bills to prove it ). I'd be hard pressed to find one bigger. The problem is that someone decided to put rooms in this place! How dumb was that?

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Here's the promised track plan for new layout. Only the NP trackage, which is primarily staging with only Laurel, MT being "on stage," has the track arrangement detailed out as yet. The rest of the plan is a general arrangement only for now.The grid is 1' squares.

Note the broken pinkish lines. They delineate "do not violate" benchwork / aisleway extents. The entry door is at the top, between Shobon and Powder River. The tracks across will be on a multi-level swinging arrangement. The aisles are rather generous, with only a few places narrowing down to about 36 inches. The Laurel and Casper yards, both of which will see quite a bit of action as focal points for the trains, are on opposite sides of an aisle. To facilitate people moving around in that area, the aisle is a nominal six feet wide, tapering to 36 inches towards the end of the Laurel peninsula.

The Laurel peninsula will be the first area to be built, and in fact construction began in earnest yesterday. Hopefully I'll be able to download some photos from my camera (it's been problematic lately for some reason) and post them later today.
MarkF Posted - 03/04/2013 : 10:41:47 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Brunton

No chance of getting into Colorado, I'm afraid - my layout space isn't big enough (who's ever is? )!


STOP! Did you say your layout space isn't big enough??? Well then before you go any further, you need to start looking for a bigger house!
Brunton Posted - 03/04/2013 : 06:25:36 AM
Thanks for the comments, guys! I've got the bug pretty strongly right now, so hopefully I'm only a couple of weeks away from first motion on new track (even if it will be back and forth on only one section of flextrack).

Bill,
To answer your questions:

I think you might be looking at the as-yet-not-updated website. The only part of the new plan that's been published is the NP staging and Laurel Yard area, on the Blogspot blog.
I will be keeping as much of the old Cody layout design as I can, though I'll have to revise and rearrange it to fit the new space. Looking promising to not have to downsize it, though.
I'll also be keeping Powder River, but it isn't part of the Powder River Basin. It's the small town of Powder River (pop. 35 twenty years ago), about 25 miles or so west of Casper. All there ever was there was a single siding which supported seasonal livestock traffic (sheep, I think).
My layout only reaches as far south as Wendover, Wyoming, a few hundred miles north of Pueblo, CO. No chance of getting into Colorado, I'm afraid - my layout space isn't big enough (who's ever is? )!
Zephyrus52246 Posted - 03/03/2013 : 9:12:56 PM
Glad to hear you're making progress.

Jeff
nhguy Posted - 03/01/2013 : 1:14:19 PM
It does look like a good plan. The Cody branch looks interesting to operate. Is there going to be more than one loading track in Powder River? This is a pretty big main industry for the railroad from what I understand about it. Any chance for the Leadville line in Colorado to mine molybdenum for CF&I in Pueblo, CO.? Or too far removed?
MarkF Posted - 03/01/2013 : 12:08:05 PM
Mark! Good to hear from you. It's good to see/hear that you are getting started on a new project. I took a quick look at your blog but will have to go back and read it when I have more time.

Operations in two years? Sounds ambitious! I'll be following along.

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