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Art’s proposed layout
is along the wall of what could be called his family room. It represents
the storage or staging tracks for the layout. Most of the track in
this room will be commercially made. Art's biggest push in the Proto:64
direction has been the completion of the Southern Pacific CA-1 caboose
shown here. Click on the photo to see more about it. |
| Lawrence is modeling the historic location of Brunner on
the South Island of New Zealand’s West Coast. The gauge is 3'6" and
the trackage is handlaid in code 80 to 16.5 mm. At present wheels
are RP25-110 but experiments have shown that scale wheels are workable.
These are currently being made at a local machine shop, and will be progressively
installed. The layout is set in the late ’30s and features kit and
scratchbuilt stock. |
| Bob has finally gotten a real “railroad room” (13' x 23'
minus a 3' x 16' aisle along one side) and will soon begin construction
of a layout based on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad operations in the “Bone
Valley” phosphate mining and citrus region of central Florida. The
layout will feature code 70 and 83 track and obsessive attention to detail.
Bob plans to start with a late ’50s setting, using currently available
kits and RTR equipment. Later, he hopes to add interchangeable scenic
elements to backdate the layout to the ’20s, with scratchbuilt rolling
stock carried over from predecessor roads such as the Florida Central and
Peninsular. |
| Tom is starting construction of the Duluth and Northeastern,
a takeoff of the prototype D&ME located in Minnesota. The railroad
will be basically an around the room layout occupying a 12' x 30' portion
of the basement. Though Tom’s interest is mainly in the pre-diesel
era (say pre-1930’s), he concedes to the availability of newer commercial
models and fudges a lot on that end. He says he will likely move
his era up into the late ’50’s to accommodate one of the new S Helper Service
SW9s. |
| Richard’s “Siskiyou-Cadillac Country” is a look at the
Southern Pacific in the Northern California, Southern Oregon area in the
early to mid 90’s, after CORP has taken over and up to then. Richard
has two major challenges ahead, finding enough modern Espee motive power
in S scale and doing it from Australia. We'll post photos of Richard’s
progress on his modular layout in the future. |
Keith Thompson
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Your web author is on his second go-round in S scale.
This time he's taking the Proto approach that's now possible thanks to
Code 88 wheelsets from Des Plaines Hobbies and NorthWest Short Line.
Keith's planning the freelanced East Texas Belt in the late 1960’s, but
may change to SP and SSW. The fictitious ETB runs from Houston to St. Louis
with a branch line to Dallas. Keith picked S scale for his most recent
scale change because he already had a large collection of 1:64 die-cast
vehicles and details of the larger size are more “viewer friendly.” |
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