Backwoods NE in Florida

[gnatshop]

Wow…I'm speechless. Thanks for all of your feedback and encouragement.
John 

Cuse, be careful buyin' a new hat - it might not fit your head!!
(Said in the spirit of a wish-to-be SBG member!)

[cuse]

Usually you say "That pic looks like the real thing".


Here's one from the WW&F Ry. Museum in Maine. "That looks kind of like a real train...oh wait, it is!"

THIS is what I want to do on my layout

John

[deemery]

It's a reflection on the quality of railroad modeling and photography that some of us looked at that and said, "That model looks like the real thing."


dave

[cuse]

Here's a gift from ACL Tom...new water tank for the railroad's home base at Pritchard's Junction. Thanks again Tom!


John

[Raymo]

Looks like it been there since day one!

[John B]

Great layout!  Has your original track plan changed much since your original drawing?

[cuse]

John,
Really hasn't except for a little bit of trackage (programming track) in front of the little FSM depot. You can see the bird's eye view of that halfway down on Pg. 10 of this thread. There's very little track overall...1 passing siding, 7 turnouts overall. Eventually, when/if I replace the N scale branch with Cundy's Harbor, I'll have to cut in another turnout to reach that destination.


I just like to build scenery and run trains around and around.


Thanks for looking in (Raymo too)...John

[ACL1504]

Here's a gift from ACL Tom...new water tank for the railroad's home base at Pritchard's Junction. Thanks again Tom!


John

John,

The water tower looks right at home. Like Raymo says, it looks like it has always been there. Certainly looks better in your layout era.

Tom

[cuse]

Hosted our local group on Sunday and had a nice time along with a good meal. Some people bring wine when they visit friends, Reading Bob brings beautifully built craftsman kits! Does everybody else here have a friend who shows up with a just completed Fos kit complete with a complex layout of LED lighting to see if anyone can use it?


He brought the Fatty Lou's hot dog stand in the photos. I have been working on my Bar Mills Barn and messing with the positioning of buildings on a little wharf I've been working on. Also shown is a Bar Mills Hank's Fuel that I built a few months ago. The Barn is a nice kit that I've wanted for a long time. I've still got a lot of work before it'll be done, but it's at the point I can use it to visualize scenes. I envision the barn as a small waterfront seafood business...notice the cool little oyster boat that Dave Fugere scratch built. I've got a little Seaport Modelworks crane (N scale) that I plan to build and place in the work area of the boat.

[ReadingBob]

Hosted our local group on Sunday and had a nice time along with a good meal. Some people bring wine when they visit friends, Reading Bob brings beautifully built craftsman kits! Does everybody else here have a friend who shows up with a just completed Fos kit complete with a complex layout of LED lighting to see if anyone can use it?

Hey, if you'd prefer I can bring wine instead of structures.  That's no problem.   

The layout is looking very sharp.  There are several view points of the middle section that are simply awesome. 

[GPdemayo]

What Bob said.....you're doing some great work John. 

[PennsyJ1]

Thanks for having us over John. The updates you made have really made a difference from the last time we were there. Kris picked up a few ideas again that we may try in incorporate on our lay out. I think they call it plagiarism. I wonder what they call it in Gman's world.

Bill & Kris

[gnatshop]

Thanks for having us over John. The updates you made have really made a difference from the last time we were there. Kris picked up a few ideas again that we may try in incorporate on our lay out. I think they call it plagiarism. I wonder what they call it in Gman's world.     Bill & Kris

It's called 'fair pickin's'!!!

[cuse]

The Friday afternoon checkers game always starts out friendly...

[cuse]

This big girl was special ordered from Colorado. The grades in Maine don't impress her, but the tight curves are new. Also, there's a little bridge that's just not going to work out.