Nitro Pass and Okanagan HO Scale Layout Tour

[Zephyrus52246]

Nice looking layout.


Jeff

[Mark Dalrymple]

Beautiful work, Don!  I love your rock shed tunnels!

Cheers, Mark.

[R Edington]

  Nice layout and your rock sheds are stunning.


Rodney

[donweixl]

Thank you to everyone who has commented on my posts so far. To give some perspective, I am posting my track plan. My room size is approximately 12 x 15 feet.

Here is the lower level:


This is the upper level:

[ACL1504]

Don,

The room size fooled me, the layout looks much bigger. Beautiful job on the layout and the use of available space.

Fantastic picture vistas.

Tom

[donweixl]

Thanks Tom. The ceiling height is only 6'6" as the layout is located under our "sunken" living room. I am 5'9" so that is not an issue but taller visitors have hit their heads on the valances...The lower ceiling also makes hiding the room lighting a bit more difficult than rooms with a higher ceiling.

[donweixl]

Here are a few construction photos from 1991:

The room before construction started in August of 1991:



The view from the entrance in November 1991:



The helix in November 1991:



Misc. construction photos:

[Janbouli]

Great looking track plan. I hope you're not 6foot 3 like I am , would make me pretty uneasy with the ceiling only 3 inches above me.

[ak-milw]

Don, Great use of space in the room, I also like the floor to ceiling shot in the mountains.

[Powersteamguy1790]

Beautiful bench work Don.

Stay cool and run steam.......

[sdrees]

Hi Don,

I hope my layout looks as good as yours when I get the scenery done.  I am working on bench work and track work now.  Your bench work looks vey nice.  Your mountains look great and I like your concrete snow sheds.  In other words, I like your whole layout.

[donweixl]

Making the benchwork was one of my favourite parts of the building process. It helped that I had splurged for a new chop saw and table saw, my first ever tools of that type. The fun part about building benchwork is how quickly you can make progress. The not so fun part is all the sawdust and noise that you create. Luckily we didn't have any young kids at this point so the noise wasn't a huge issue.

One thing I remember is that using a jig saw to cut out the hole for the ash pit after track was laid was pretty destructive....all the vibration could not be avoided.

[S&S RR]

Don


I really enjoyed seeing the pictures of the benchwork and track plan - you have really done a nice job with your layout.

[jbvb]

What John said.  I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.