In December 2000, I tunneled through the wall and made two tunnels going into the next room. I used 4 inch shelves around the room and put a tunnel through to the closet. Inside the closet is a loop where I will be doing a mountain and a lumber mill with a small town. The canyon is only styrofoam right now. There are 6 different bridges in Rock Canyon and 5 are different and two are the same except ones black and the other is silver. One bridge is scratch-built. Two bridges are curved. Can't wait until I start scenicing it. When completion of expansion, this will give my layout about 4 (N scale) miles of running track.- The track going across the window pulls out for the purpose of window cleaning or maintenance on windows, etc. The loop inside the closet will be mostly inside of a mountain with an open access underneath to the track. The 2 outsides walls are not going to have any background behind it. This is my wife's room and the guest bedroom. The olny detail I will have is Rock Canyon and the mill in the closet. The track is ballested and ground detail inplace. But that is it...
UPDATES
January 30, 2001. I started plastering and painting part of the canyon... It is starting to look real good. March 1, 2001. Enlarged closet - March 15, 2001. Hung shelves along outside wall and board in closet. - Started laying road bed and track - First train to run was on March 24, 2001 - 46 feet of main line track was laid not counting Rock Canyon. That is just over a mile in N-scale. April 20, 2001. Ballast most of track along the two walls with windows. Also ran my Santa Fe Super Chief passenger train with no problems for over an hour. But still have some problems with smaller cars and engines. Bugs are being worked out. July-August 2001. Redid loop in closet and made passing siding longer and added a logging mill. I purchased the logging mill on Ebay, only a single building. I will be adding the sawdust burner, a small engine house, power plant, conveyer and logging camp in the near future. November 2001. Worked on turn-outs, got the bugs outs and ran both my passenger train and my 2 new Atlas engines pulling about 28 car with no problems... Things are looking up....March 2002. Scratch built 2 more bridges. One curve girder bridge and one steel frame bridge. Added more styrofoam and a little tunnel in the canyon. Almost ready to plaster and do some more painting. Painted a little country church and detailed it for the logging town.
March 2002. Building a sawdust burner from Master Creations. made cat walk around top of it from scratch. Scratch built two logging trailers and put together two semi trucks. Purchased 3 flat beds cars to put lumber loads on from the lumber mill. I built a metal storage shed, kit bashed a brick power plant from Kestrel Designs 'Water Tower', also kit bashed/scratch-built a one stall engine house. Some of the parts are from an roundhouse kit I got off Ebay. May 2002. Put a white facia board on the canyon area. Started plastering more of the canyon area. Pictures will be soon. As soon as I get some more plaster down and paint it. I am waiting on a background before I can add trees. I am looking for some one to paint the background or maybe a professional backdrop or picture cut outs like I did in the main room. September 2003. Put styrofoam, wire base down for mountain in closet. Started plastering mountain. October 2003. Plastered most of mountain in the closet, painted rock, laying dirt and underbrush. Started making aspen trees. 2 tunnels are done. August 2004. Bought crane off Ebay and modifing it for my logging yard. August 2005. I purchased the background for the canyon. I bought it from BackGround Warehouse
January 2007. Started back plastering and doing rock and ground work on Rock Canyon. Spring 2008. Did more rock and plastering for Rock Canyon. Have background and figuring how to fit it in. Redid the track as was having track problems. All works great now. December 2009. Did a little more work on the canyon. Put more plaster on the montains, I finally added my background. Check pictures below to view update.
January/February 2010. Most of the plastering is done. I have been painting the mountins and rocks. Found a picture I could put on the right side of the canyon so it does not just run into the wall. I then blended the colors to match the picture. Added a few small trees on top of the hills. It is starting to look good.
August 2010.So far I have the mountains and hills behind the track done and detailed with trees. All of the canyon is plasted and painted. The river will be next.To see updates on main layout click here
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