Hi all,
Slowly but surely the website is catching up with the construction progress http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/E/ Check the Newly updated for recent additions.
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HJ,
thankyou. I enjoyed a pleasurable hour rummaging through your railroad site. Your workshop is a definite point of envy. I either stand at the kitchen benchtop or use the dining table for all my projects, with the heavy (messy) stuff relegated to the outdoors (irrespective of season or climatic conditions).
Thank you, Tim!
WOW HJ …you have trains OUTSIDE !
(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/P1/MV_04.jpg)
Modeling the ALPS looks like a LOT of work , but I can tell there will be some beautiful photo work done there on your layout , looking better and better , looking REAL . I hope you have the time and weather to get even more going . nice
Dennis, Things are moving right along, and you’re absolutely right, considerable thought was given to how to make “it” look as real as possible. For me that means a lot of scratch building, kitbashing, scaling down to “whatever” - just wait for the write-up on how to select the “perfect ballast” :lol: - doing research, then transcribing the results to the model; etc. etc. etc. etc. One step at a time. BTW that picture is as old as the hills, I staged a similar one the other day. Looks a bit different
(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/F-PIX/TrainsPreda03_s.jpg)
It’s going to be a busy place! RhB in the dominantly GREEN phase.
Looking even better now , do I see 5 tracks there ? If there will be some switching there , it looks like a nice working height .
Dennis,
Somehow one needs to get from very practical height i.e. in staging it’s at eye level, down to the nitty-gritty on the ground. Preda will be a very nice height when that Live Steam RhB G 3/4 from Regner is finally materializing. Someone said/wrote it’s in the planning stage … now there’s a term I can really relate to! :lol: :lol:
Must have been a sad day when you had to break down the former HO layout. I have a friend who has been working on a similar layout in his attic for about 4 years. He calls me to check on progress whenever he needs to carry up lumber, etc. 
Someday we’ll be able to actually run a train out of the massive yard to another part of the layout.
Do you have another layout to run your trains, or do you use the outdoor layout in progress?
Paul Lambert said:
....................Do you have another layout to run your trains, or do you use the outdoor layout in progress?
Paul,
At the business there’s an elevated IIm track running around the office (great stuff for testing!), there’s a small N scale layout, there’s the HOm display layout, a LS switching layout is under construction.
Now, would that be the reason Jack “The KolleKtor” Barton coined the “Great Guru of all things model railroad”? Or was it a Freudian slip like the one about “LGB-Ventilator”? :lol: :lol:
PS since I also belong to a MR group I get my fill of “whatever” on other people’s layouts, too, in several different scales and themes.
I started with HO in the 70’s. When I bought a very small house in the 90’s it made me start thinking in different scales. I have been slowly collecting N over the last four years to build an operational layout indoors. Since I have plenty of space outdoors, large scale was an obvious choice. When I first saw large scale trains a couple decades back, I knew I would eventually have one.
I also have some On30 and O. Eventually I will have something in every scale. The largest “train” I have is a Peg Perego ride on, with a couple hundred feet of track. Now my smallest is a train set from Tiny Trains http://www.tiny-trains.com If you have not seen these you should take a look. They are 1/900 scale! Mine runs on a 4"x4" layout. I think I can find a space for it in the house. 
Paul