British Columbia Railway Dawson Creek Sub in HO

[Zephyrus52246]

Thanks for the info, Chris.  I have one just like it in yellow.  I'm starting some foam work today as well.


Jeff

[Twist67]

Hi,
I was very busy during the last weeks but made some progress on my layout. First part I have finished tracks and tested them is the G.E.R.N. komplex and the liftout with the main next to the residential area. I made a small change on the Industrie with the track in front of the mill sitting at an angle of about 10 degree to the backdrop. On the other side of the track is the warehouse.

You can see the structure above the tracks crossing from the mill to the elevator side.
I added some tanks and another structure to the track in the front. All tracks are wired and tested during a short switching session.




You can see the track curving around the corner. This is where it will enter the liftout in the next two pictures


From the opposite direction. On the left side of the tracks is the residential area.

Next part I started with is the yard at Dawson Creek. It was okay but to much for my needs. So I searched for a way to stay with most of the spots but less track and a new design.I made some plans with Anyrail and finaly found something that looked fine.





Next step will be laying out kork and gluing down the track, wireing etc. So there is still a lot to do, but I hope to get it finished,soon.
Thanks for looking. Any comments are very appreciated.
Regards,Chris

[ak-milw]

Nice long stretch there Chris.

[Twist67]

Thanks Andy. I hope to get some more work done this week.

Regards,Chris

[Twist67]

Hi there,
it´s been some time since my last post. Went out for vacation the last 3 weeks but have done a little bit of progress on my layout.
I finished the new trackwork at Dawson Creek and made the connection to the helix again. I relocated the Northwestern wood Preservers Mill at the westend of Dawson Creek and added a turnout for a nwe spur on top of the helix. As things grow while building I decided to remove the last turn of the helix. There was no need for that. There will be a small village on top of it with a street and some stores and a railserved store for several supplies and another elevator. So here are some pictures of the finished parts.
We are starting at the Dawson Creek station with two tracks, one will be for passenger service,the other for freight service.the track at the front will be used as a teamtrack.


Following the tracks west you will find two elevators on the left side. They will be build from prototype pictures like the station. The Walthers kits are mockups.


On the westend of the "yard" is the spur to the Alberta Pool Elevator No.3. There is also a mockup for the elevator made from Walthers kits. It will be replaced by a scratchbuild structure made form prototype pictures.


Next to the elevator is a street with a streetcrossing and a small farmscene on the other side of the street. The track will curve around the farmscene and to the tunrout into the Northwestern Wood Preservers Mill and the main west to the helix.


The structures are placed there for storage until I start with the final layout of the mill. The next point on the main is the trunout where the spur to the supply center and the elevator on top of the helix starts. It´s the right track on the next picture. The other track is the main west to the helix and into Chetwynd on the lower level.


The last change I made was just a small change in the trackarrangement on the lower level entering the approach to the helix behind the canfor mill. I split the mill spur and the mainline into two seperate tracks, the track in the front is the miillspur and the track behind is the mainline to Dawson Creek.


This is the northend of Chetwynd with the main north (to the backdrop). To the left is another customer served by rail. The structures are from Wreight´s Food service.


I hope to get finished with the last small parts of track this week. As you can see on some pictures I have started with some rough landscaping and hope to get deeper into that stuff the next weeks. The missing backdrops are painted but have to be installed, the rest have to be painted. I´ll stay with the structure mockups for now and replace them later when I have do look for the correct footprints of the final buildings.

Thanks for looking, any comments are very appreciated.

Regards,Chris