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I said it already, a phantistic layout with a vast amount of operational procedures, built from a great modeler!
Nice to see these pictures in this compact form. Thanks, Doc Wayne.
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Any chance Barney Secord will venture far enough to photograph the second level?
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Funny that you'd mention it, Matt, as I was thinking about it last night when I was re-doing the photos.
Most of the mainline track is in place and the rails painted, but other than that, it's a construction zone, with tools, material, and junk everywhere. Maybe once I get it cleaned up, although there's really nothing of interest on it yet, as I can't decide what industries are to go where. I thought that having a full plywood surface on which to work would allow me the freedom to put the tracks wherever I wanted, but it seems more constraining than cut-out plywood roadbed. It also looks like it will be about as urbanised as the rest of the layout, not the semi-rural scenes that I had envisioned. I've probably got too many structures for the space available, too, which will make it difficult to give Mount Forest, the northern terminus of the line, much of a city-like appearance.
I think, in retrospect, that I was very fortunate that the original layout turned out as well as it did, despite not having a trackplan or even much of a design concept.
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I remember, some time back a few, when Barney ..."rented" a float plane, and did a few low passes over the Cindys Harbor Seaport Village and Museum. :o
Now where did I put that evidence........
:mrgreen: Found it !!
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Evidently it was one way in which he "a-mast" so many flying hours.
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doctorwayne Wrote:Funny that you'd mention it, Matt, as I was thinking about it last night when I was re-doing the photos.
Most of the mainline track is in place and the rails painted, but other than that, it's a construction zone, with tools, material, and junk everywhere. Maybe once I get it cleaned up, although there's really nothing of interest on it yet, as I can't decide what industries are to go where. I thought that having a full plywood surface on which to work would allow me the freedom to put the tracks wherever I wanted, but it seems more constraining than cut-out plywood roadbed. It also looks like it will be about as urbanised as the rest of the layout, not the semi-rural scenes that I had envisioned. I've probably got too many structures for the space available, too, which will make it difficult to give Mount Forest, the northern terminus of the line, much of a city-like appearance.
I think, in retrospect, that I was very fortunate that the original layout turned out as well as it did, despite not having a trackplan or even much of a design concept.
Wayne
Good to hear! Funny how too much freedom is sometime extremely limiting. My hunch is that your deep knowledge of railroading enable you to come up with a coherent vision without a plan. So far your intuition with that layout was quite good since you have many great photogenic spots. And I think the idea of shooting a layout from an airplane is probably the most natural way to fully understand how it works together.
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This post is just to let any interested parties know that the photos in this thread have been returned to their original order (after the jumbling as a result of the site upgrade).
There are at least two other threads in this section for me to redo, and I'll post notices in them when they're completed, too.
Thanks if you care to take a look.
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Thank you Wayne!
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Are there any photos of Barney and his plane? Surely they are out there someplace.
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(10-03-2019, 09:28 AM)Charlie B Wrote: Are there any photos of Barney and his plane? Surely they are out there someplace.
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It took me a while to find them, Charlie, but I believe that they're on Page 2 of this thread.
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Found these in my archives with Barney in a Santa suit. Both are from 2009 right after we changed to Big Blue.
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Ooops, just to avoid any confusion, I think the first one is from Wayne, the other one is one that I doctored up for the holidays. I can't be sure though since that was 10 years ago and I can't remember what I did last week, nevermind that long ago.
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what is the last post about?
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(01-03-2020, 10:19 AM)Charlie B Wrote: what is the last post about?
Just a bunch of spam, along with 124 others that are all gone now, as is the one that posted all that trash.
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