Large Scale Central

A Raised Road Bed: A build log for the RGS raised layout.

Ric Golding said:

That is a great idea! I’m guessing a really cold winter could give the roots trouble, but hey you can always replant.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

So far it hasn’t bothered them. I suspect the frost, even if they’re in the ground, gets below the roots, so I doubt it would do much harm in this case.

I’m more concerned about them drying out, which is what the irrigation system is for. So that needs to be extended to cover the new stuff.

I was planning on the same thing for my RR, but I was considering leaving them in the nursery pot so they could be pulled out relatively easy. Plan on building a box for the trees though.

Chris

Chris Kieffer said:

I was planning on the same thing for my RR, but I was considering leaving them in the nursery pot so they could be pulled out relatively easy. Plan on building a box for the trees though.

Chris

Where the layout is close to the ground, I keep them in the pots, but cut the bottoms of the pot off. The add some dirt under the pot to raise it to layout level.

All the shrubs planted on the Mancos module are done this way.

A Raised Road Bed: Plants and Irrigation

Spent Sunday extending the irrigation up to the Hesperus module.

And yesterday and today adding more dirt where it settled.

Ken, the layout is looking fantastic… In case you didn’t know… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)

Looks great!

Very nice (old man) (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Spectacular. Really.

How come you guys who live out in the middle of the countryside always seem to have the best railroads?

John Passaro said:

Spectacular. Really.

How come you guys who live out in the middle of the countryside always seem to have the best railroads?

More room? I dunno, maybe we just make them bigger so we have less grass to cut… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

I think it is the room thing, John. The ability to just go where you want with the railroad instead of where you have to go is by far to me the best thing. I live in town with a realitivly small lot, and a pool, so my RR will have to be shaped to fit the most in a small area. My mom lives on an acre of land with a back yard I would kill( NOT my mom) for. looking at her yard when I go home I can dream up 20ft curves, mountains valleys and a grand RR to spend hours and hours, just go around the whole thing.

Also helps to have a great eye for the detail and how you lay out the RR.

Ken, I could easily sit in one of those lawn chairs and watch trains go by all day.

Joe Bussing said:
Ken, I could easily sit in one of those lawn chairs and watch trains go by all day.

Come on over…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Spent this morning extending the irrigation to the end of the Porter module. An added a few emitters for some plants I bought yesterday.

Since all of these came in 3 and 4" pots I didn’t use boxes under them. Just planted them directly on the layout.

Be interesting to see how they are in a month or so, when they mature some…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Great to see you are in the “Futzing Phase”. I think the most enjoyable part and you’re now having time to do it. Pretty cool!

As far as the “big acreage and big sky” feeling, I think Marty Cozad was the one that got many of us looking at what was in the background of a picture and how to enhance and expand on that idea. Except for that old yellow school bus in the neighbor’s field, his pictures could give you a real “Memorex Moment”.

Space and the view/angle of the picture can real give “the diorama view” to any shot. Nothing makes it look real like natural sunshine and I think that was what the large areas promotes. However, packing a lunch to run a model train, is another subject. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

Ric Golding said:

Great to see you are in the “Futzing Phase”. I think the most enjoyable part and you’re now having time to do it. Pretty cool!

As far as the “big acreage and big sky” feeling, I think Marty Cozad was the one that got many of us looking at what was in the background of a picture and how to enhance and expand on that idea. Except for that old yellow school bus in the neighbor’s field, his pictures could give you a real “Memorex Moment”.

Space and the view/angle of the picture can real give “the diorama view” to any shot. Nothing makes it look real like natural sunshine and I think that was what the large areas promotes. However, packing a lunch to run a model train, is another subject. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

You’re right, Ric. I know I have plenty to do with repairs to the buildings, especially the roofs, but I save that for winter. And there’s still the bridge approaches that have me stymied at the moment, but it’s runnable and reliable, which is all I was looking for. But, I still can’t just sit and watch a train go round as I had planned to do yesterday. I had to go along with it and drop cars off here and there.

As for the “Memorex Moment”, that wasn’t really part of the plan, but if works, who am I to argue…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Looking good with the plants. I have to agree with Ric your at the fun stage with creating scenes and planting. Its nice you can let a train run while you work. Ya done good.

SOOOO, talk about the bridge approaches. What do you mean? What do you have? What look do you want?

Lift out or hinged?

I can’t see setting it like that when you need to mow…

John