N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[CRL]

Now model the giant hammer.   

[wm3798]

C'mon Dave, give the nail a chance.

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Jason

Wait, is that one of those new Woodland Scenics sets?  "Trina's T***y Bar?"

[MK]

OK, so who makes N-Scale dollar bills????   

[peteski]

OK, so who makes N-Scale dollar bills????   

I can print those on my Alps printer! 

[Dave V]

C'mon Dave, give the nail a chance.

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Jason

Brilliant!  Jason FTW.

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JFRTM!








Enjoy your weekend!
Lee

[davefoxx]

JFRTM!

Ooh!  Switcher madness.  Good times.

DFF

[OldEastRR]

If this Retroland, where's the hugely oversized Bachmann F units and GP40s?  Or are they not allowed?

[wm3798]

They are queued up and waiting their turn!  Penn Central Night is just around the corner!

There's a few more shades of Pennsy to run first, though. 

Lee

[Point353]

There's a few more shades of Pennsy to run first, though. 

Will there be Con-Cor PAs in DGLE?

[wm3798]

Sadly no.  But I do have some Minitrix steam, some poo-brown F7s, a ConCor E8 and an Arnold GP9!  And let's not forget the GG1s!  I usually save them for last, so when I have the Cat poles up its easy to transition to Penn Central Night with a Metroliner!

[OldEastRR]

About your double curve over another double curve track scenery situation -- have you thought about putting a tunnel opening for the lower tracks but scenery past that built out so it looks like once the tracks enter the tunnel they continue on straight but underground?  It'd give you more real estate for the upper level and with the insides of the tunnel and foam painted black you shouldn't see much inside it.



This would let you put the tunnel entrance squarely perpendicular to the tracks where it crosses them and give you plenty of side clearance for the opening.  The red is the tunnel/viaduct entrance, the horizontal blue lines are the flat area over it for more town -- or you could build a small hill there -- and the slanting downward blue lines are the slope next to the tunnel entrance. Paint everything black inside the entrance (including the ballast) and use black construction paper as an overarching interior to block out any light from coming out of the tunnel. With no train coming through it'll look like an empty hole and any train coming out/going in is coming off a curve into the tunnel and that blocks off a direct view of seeing the train supposedly going straight thru the tunnel. And at first glance people will assume you're running trains into a tunnel and right off the layout. Nice optical illusion.

[wm3798]

An interesting concept.  If I had better access to the tracks behind the sky board, I might consider it.  One of the advantages of the current version is that it affords me a view into the netherworld THROUGH the underpass, with a reasonably clear path for the grabber claw that occasionally gets deployed when something inevitably ends up on the ground.  I plan to add a removable "L" to the skyboard to give this area a bit of a backdrop when viewd from the end of the table.

With portal out on the curve like that, I would lose that view and access from below.  There's about a foot of track, which includes the two turnouts at that end of the long storage sidings, that are best accessed that way.  The rest of the back tracks get cleared using the five finger sky hook that gets dropped in over the backdrop from time to time.

I like that it would provide more real estate for those N scale land barons that spend all day riding around in their private train cars, but I'm afraid in this location, form must follow function...

Lee

[Point353]

Could you construct some of the scenery such that it could be lifted out to provide emergency access?

[wm3798]

Yes, and that's the plan with the skyboard that will elbow around the corner.
The base will need to be more solidly attached because I want to do some lighted structures and what not.  Easier to wire lights if the earth doesn't move under my feet!
Lee