I'm shocked to see I actually had a few page views. I've been so lax keeping up with site. I think these 6 people have given me some motivation to add more content and pictures and more frequently. So I'm off to find that folder with the early photos. Once I find it I will walk you through what I have done. But first I have to finish a work project.
And the healing has begun
Ok. So I started the reworking of my layout. I scrapped the full tear down and went with a modification of the existing track work. I widened the span between the 2 tables and ripped out the rear span because it was way too narrow and replaced it with a wider and deeper section.
My next step was to build a river bed which was a mash up of the prior landscape and some new sections. Overall, it's coming along quite nicely, but I found the truss bridge I wanted to add would not work with the turnout because the turnout was too close to the bridge entrance and my longest cars would have scraped one side of the inside of the bridge support as it exited the span. So I'm opting to scratch build my own bridge. This is going to take some work but in the end I think it's going to look just as impressive... Or better.
As for the rest of the layout, the other side of the tables will have a 6" span that lifts out to allow access to the center of the layout. I am planning on adding most of the controls, transformer and switch controls in this area. In addition, I'm going to add two turnouts to the narrow span so that I can add 2 additional tables for a rail yard and a full blown train station... Likely this is where I will move the Hoboken terminal. I cannot add turnouts to the ends of either table because one table is too close to the wall and there are the palisades cliffs that i would have to rip out. On the other table I might have room to add the switch, but I'm not there yet and I need to pick p a pair of o-72 turnouts and see where they will work best.
My next step was to build a river bed which was a mash up of the prior landscape and some new sections. Overall, it's coming along quite nicely, but I found the truss bridge I wanted to add would not work with the turnout because the turnout was too close to the bridge entrance and my longest cars would have scraped one side of the inside of the bridge support as it exited the span. So I'm opting to scratch build my own bridge. This is going to take some work but in the end I think it's going to look just as impressive... Or better.
First things second
Well, several years ago I started working on an 0-gauge train layout. I envisioned a somewhat different layout than I ended up. In my current basement, I dedicated a 14' x 14' space to the trains. Then I built two 6' x 7' tables and connected them with two 24" spans, one with a bridge.
My collection of trains started off with the Lionel Polar Express but it grew quickly with two eBay wins that resulted in adding a very fine K-Line Erie Lackawanna passenger set and an Erie Lackawanna ABA engine set. I also picked up a NYC steam engine and. Bunch of other assorted cars. Since then, I have added several more engines (mostly diesels) and cars.
My layout is primarily focused on the Erie Lackawanna and NY Central equipment that ran on the Northern NJ lines in Bergen County. I grew up in Tenafly and Northvale NJ and I spent many years seeing and hearing about and playing on and around the EL lines that ran through these towns.
I'm also a bit of a nostalgia buff with a focus on my family history and the places where I and my family grew up. For almost 3 generations, my family has lived and worked in this urbanized suburbia about 10 miles north and west of New York City. I moved to Atlanta in 1997 but I did not start playing with trains until after my son asked for a Polar Express train set about 3 years ago.
It did not take long to get totally sucked into the world of trains. O Scale takes up a lot of space and fortunately we have a huge basement. My layout has been a true labor of love, but after about a year and a half I stopped working on it because I was down to replacing some buildings which were place holders for more detailed ones.
Now we are considering moving to Florida. And that move will up end the layout come tell from 2 perspectives. First, the layout may need to be reworked to fit the new space, which at this time is completely unknown. To solve the problem of not knowing the potential dimensions, I have neglected to assume the space will be a one car garage or an attic. If its a garage the space utilization will need to be carefully worked out. If its an attic, I believe I will have a lot more space to work with. But either way, I know I need to redo the layout and stick with tables that can be moved.
To that end, I thought I would stick with a maximum 4' depth. But as I have come to learn, 4' is too great a Distance to reach the far side of the table. So I have set a 42" maximum depth for the new design. That said, there is some potential for the layout to change. But how?
Maybe I'll scrap the new design and rework the existing layout. I'm so confused!
My collection of trains started off with the Lionel Polar Express but it grew quickly with two eBay wins that resulted in adding a very fine K-Line Erie Lackawanna passenger set and an Erie Lackawanna ABA engine set. I also picked up a NYC steam engine and. Bunch of other assorted cars. Since then, I have added several more engines (mostly diesels) and cars.
My layout is primarily focused on the Erie Lackawanna and NY Central equipment that ran on the Northern NJ lines in Bergen County. I grew up in Tenafly and Northvale NJ and I spent many years seeing and hearing about and playing on and around the EL lines that ran through these towns.
I'm also a bit of a nostalgia buff with a focus on my family history and the places where I and my family grew up. For almost 3 generations, my family has lived and worked in this urbanized suburbia about 10 miles north and west of New York City. I moved to Atlanta in 1997 but I did not start playing with trains until after my son asked for a Polar Express train set about 3 years ago.
It did not take long to get totally sucked into the world of trains. O Scale takes up a lot of space and fortunately we have a huge basement. My layout has been a true labor of love, but after about a year and a half I stopped working on it because I was down to replacing some buildings which were place holders for more detailed ones.
Now we are considering moving to Florida. And that move will up end the layout come tell from 2 perspectives. First, the layout may need to be reworked to fit the new space, which at this time is completely unknown. To solve the problem of not knowing the potential dimensions, I have neglected to assume the space will be a one car garage or an attic. If its a garage the space utilization will need to be carefully worked out. If its an attic, I believe I will have a lot more space to work with. But either way, I know I need to redo the layout and stick with tables that can be moved.
To that end, I thought I would stick with a maximum 4' depth. But as I have come to learn, 4' is too great a Distance to reach the far side of the table. So I have set a 42" maximum depth for the new design. That said, there is some potential for the layout to change. But how?
Maybe I'll scrap the new design and rework the existing layout. I'm so confused!
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