Large Scale Central

MY large N scale layout

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#21

All the #12 switches on the main are scratchbuilt. I had Doug Bronson laser cut the tie strips for me.

(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4783/dscf1433u.jpg)

I used to use the fixture you see here to make the tie strips before I knew Doug.

(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/2853/dscf1437n.jpg)

#22

Dang, Rodney… It looks wonderful… :slight_smile:

#23
David Russell said:
Andy Clarke said:
I've got a few N-scale items on the wall, in the basement.... :)
Yes but you don't know where they are as you can't see them anymore! ;)
Son??? Your about the only one who hasn't seen them.... :)
#24
Andy Clarke said:
David Russell said:
Andy Clarke said:
I've got a few N-scale items on the wall, in the basement.... :)
Yes but you don't know where they are as you can't see them anymore! ;)
Son??? Your about the only one who hasn't seen them.... :)
Would anyone trust Rooster with something as small as N-scale, even if just to look at?? :O :O :O Wouldn't think so!! :lol: :lol:
#25

Rodney,

I’m absolutely floored! that is one hell of a setup. I haven’t seen a yard that large in a very long time!

But there is a fly in that ointment … :wink: I think finishing the ceiling above the layout would have been a very good idea!

#26
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
] Would anyone trust Rooster with something as small as N-scale, even if just to look at?? :O :O :O Wouldn't think so!! :lol: :lol:
Here I thought you trusted me!! :)

I can’t look at Rodney’s pictures anymore!
VERY COOL!
:wink:

#27

Rodney, I like the layout. I was an N scaler back in high school. I miss it because you can put so much in a small area.
Ron

#28

Thanks for all the kind comments on the layout. I have dreamed of this layout since I became a serious model
railroader at about the age of 13 when Model Railroad Craftsman did a centerfold on John Allen’s Gorre and Daphetid
Railroad.

Rodney

#29
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Rodney,

I’m absolutely floored! that is one hell of a setup. I haven’t seen a yard that large in a very long time!

But there is a fly in that ointment … :wink: I think finishing the ceiling above the layout would have been a very good idea!


HJ
The ceiling is almost all the way finished. There is 3 places that I still need to finish when I get all the wiring
for the layout lighting done.

Ah yes the yard. The yard at Portola will be almost as big as this one. The plan is to have 2 operators at each
yard. In simulations I had as many as 12 operators running at once.
Rodney

#30

Portola to Oroville along the Feather River Canyon…lots of dramatic scenery along that route.

(http://www.trainweb.org/rgs/Keddie03a.jpg)

(http://www.trainweb.org/rgs/FRC04.jpg)

(http://www.trainweb.org/rgs/FRC02.jpg)

#31

Ohhh, now I get it. DUH. That is all the heavy duty benchwork on the highest level.

#32

Its been awhile, I need to get Richard and head down there. woow.

#33

Wow. Now that’s a R.R.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/noelw/Logo/6.gif)

I got to hand it to you on the work it taken to go that large no matter what scale it is.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/noelw/Logo/bigsmile.gif)

We only have a coffee table N gage r.r. but we get to see it and not on a shelf. Great job there . Keep posting on it when you can…