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Dave Abeles's excellent HO scale model empire, the Onondaga Cutoff (you can read all about it at onondagacutoff.blogspot.com) is truly a sight to behold- it's set in 1994 near Syracuse, NY and has all the Conrail blue anyone could ever ask for. At a recent operating session, I hung out to take pictures of the crew running the trains, which proved to be a real challenge given the low light, tight angles, and the fact that this wasn't really something I'd shot before! Still, I think I came away with some fun shots, like this one.
The complete sketch of the John Bull train in my folding album.
My Prismacolor pencils are really getting shorter! I've never used them enough before this to get them more than a tad shorter than full length.
Toy trains. Ink and colored pencil in a Moleskine Japanese Album.
a mysterious scrapbook given to me by Flickrer What Makes the Pie Shops Tick?; nearly everything in it is about model trains! I'll be posting most of it
A birds eye view of my new DSB layout "Industrivej". It is a small yard serving a number of industries close to one of Denmark's ports, I'm not going to model a dock, although I might suggest one in the distance on the backscene.
From the top left I plan to include an animal feed silo at the end of the long siding with a warehouse on the shorter one at the top. The kick-back siding to the bottom right will probably be a scrap metal dealer.
The parallel tracks to the right that join near the bottom left form a run around loop with the other end in the staging yard offscene.
Unfortunately my photo editing software won't allow me to put text on the picture so I can't label these locations.
This is my current working plan for the train layout. The black is the upper level, blue, lower level.
The design constraints were o72 curves with easements. I felt that an around the room layout was the best way to achieve this. Particularly since I wanted two levels, and you need some serious length to accomplish this.
Clearance is supposed to be enough to accommodate a 20' scale height car. I think it does, but I need to buy one to be sure
Only the lower level exists with the exception of the bridges in front of the two doors. The bridge in front of the left door is a drop down swing bridge with two tracks over top of each other. The swing bridge seems to work well.
The right door bridges are a large unit that is fairly tricky to remove. However, access to the that room is not often, and you can duck under without a great deal of difficulty. This bridge was very difficult to make because I needed to make cuts on the curves. More on this later.
Because of all the track cuts in the upper right corner, there are a lot of short blocks up there. This is why I have a TIU there, but I am considering simply running a block to the area from TIU 1 and then splitting. This is the open question in the ogauge forum.
This is a HO scale Roundhouse 60' Bulkhead Flat Lettered for PTTX # 90270. Details West PC&F log bunks were added to the car . The car is custom weathered, has metal wheels and Kaydee #5 couplers. The wood load is made up of individual poles glued together with white glue and the load is removable. The banding is made from elastic jewelery string..