Recent content by blue303

Update for this month. I made a control panel. I didn't realize how small I could get toggle switches. They stick out at most a half inch. Some more progress has been made on the scenery. I also named the railroad Copper Mountain Railroad. The paint sceme at the moment is black with a gold top...

This morning I finished wiring the last block. All I need to do now is wire in some switches to control the blocks. I am kind of torn between building a control panel or getting an atlas block controller. If I get the block controller it would be mounted right on the side of the layout. It would...

The mountains did really change the look of things. They make nice scenic view blocks. Not alot of progress lately. I got sidetracked with my other hobbies. On a positive note I got started on putting the feeder wires for the different blocks. I also broke Catzilla of climbing on the layout.

I have been using a scratch built hot wire foam cutter. I made it for work for displays and such. It is based off of a design I found on the web. It uses a radio shack transformer, light dimmer & guitar string. It works really well. The beauty of using pvc pipe on it that I can make it bigger or...

I have been making some good progress this week. I got all of the roadbed down and 97% of the track. I even have started three of the four mountains. Sorry about the blurrynes in this one. It does show Catzilla though. That is important for later. Now the roadbed is down and drying. The rail...

Thanks for the comments. Getting the first train to run on this layout was a great feeling. Now if I can teach my little catzilla to quit attacking the caboose I will be in better shape. I am curious to how the water is going to turn out too. I'm not quite sure if I want it to look like a...

Update. I have been busy since I started this thread. I got all of the roadbed and rail done on the lower level. The incline set went on nicely. The water area is cut out. It still needs alot of work there. The most important thing is that I have an operation train now. So far the electrical...

I like it when people have a links to layouts & current projects. It makes it nice to be able to go directly to there when they mention it about it in a post.

Hello, everybody. For my first post I decided to show off my new layout that I am building. It is based off of the HO scale Rock Ridge Central that Model Railroader had in the January 2002 issue. It now fits on a 3' x 5' board. The main theme I am going for is a freelanced western railroad...