A few pictures....

[doctorwayne]

My thanks to all for the very kind words.  When the rush of helping to get things running settles down a bit, I'll have to get busy re-sizing my photos to be able to fit them into our Gallery here.  Currently, other than the single "place-holder" shots in the Gallery, all are linked from photobucket.  Over on Zealot, I have about 2600 photos in their Gallery, but all but a few didn't need to be re-sized.

Thats a well setup engine area. How do you like the TT? I like the way you built up the floor of the TT.
Errr would it be too much to ask for some pics of the bridge area, it looks great from a distance.The buildings look fantastic as well. Wow it all looks great.

The turntable bridge was scratchbuilt around a pine block, using sides cut from a couple of Atlas through girder bridges, picked-up, used, for a couple of bucks.  I originally set it up to run with a crank on the layout facia, running via the gears in an electric hand mixer mounted below the layout, but found it more convenient to simply use my finger to push the table in the desired direction.  Current pick-up for one bridge rail is through the ring rail, via modified freight trucks, while the other rail is powered through a wiper on the centre shaft.  Indexing is by eye.  Here are a few shots, most not taken by Barney:













The bridge track is Atlas code 83 flex, with the webs removed from between all ties.  I then inserted suitable-length basswood ties in each space between ties, then covered that with a deck of basswood planks.  The control cabin is styrene, and the handrails are brass wire in modified handrail stanchions from an Athearn blue box diesel.





I'll replace these photos when I have an opportunity, as the right-hand one-third of the pictures is getting lopped off here.

Wayne