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James, your making great progress! If that E unit, the cars, the track work and ballasting is any indication of your talents, we're in for a big treat as you continue to progress! Nicely done!!!
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Looks real good James. Please keep us posted on your progress.
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Good work James. I had missed the first pics. There are some very nice spots on the layout.
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James. Very nice! Yes, keep us posted.
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Great photos of the progress James
How in the world do you get those Rowley Modules up and down the stairs in a 200+ yo home ?
I don't envy you in doing that.
Mike S in MI
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Hi James. The layout is lookin great. Here we go again feeding Mike Hamer enthusiasm for B&M empires on the build. [:-apple]
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Chris Lyon
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Hi, Chris...ol' buddy ol' pal...and I'm a-lovin' it! Great layout progress, James. Also...hi to Mike Sherbak who is BM_1566. Hey Mike, I run the 1566 GP7 on my layout!
Ah, Chris...you don't know what you're missin' if you're not modelling New England!
Note: Chris is a good buddy and fellow Friday Night Group member up here in Ottawa, Canada!
James, please do keep those pictures coming. It is always fun seeing a B&M layout on the build! :up: :up: [:P]
Mike Hamer
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://www.bostonandmaine.blogspot.ca
http://www.craftsmanstructures.blogspot.ca
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Mike (I rode 1566 on B-21 back in the late 1960s), I'm lucky that 200 years ago, the guy who built my house was keeping a promise he made to land his wife. So it's got high ceilings and generous doors and stairways. I heave a good deal of hay every summer, so I *can* get the modules up two flights myself, but usually my wife or daughter help. I put down a bunch of ties tonight, but no time to take a (probably) dull picture anyway. Now if only my LHS will get off the dime and get me the rail I need, I've got my work cut out for me till I leave for Dortmund right after the Hub Spring Show.
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I returned from Germany a week ago, and have a little progress to show: The easterly switches for the 'middle' track are mostly done. And until the LHS gets the bundle of code 83 rail I ordered in January, I can either work on the spurs (code 70 arrived quickly), or start framing the next section (staging behind the post at the left rear).
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James, I see that you ballast as you go. Good idea.
BruceComment
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Roadbed first (if I'm using it, 1/8" HomaBed here, or 1/4" pine lattice stock), then ties, sand the ties, then ballast, then rail.
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Hi James...Just catching this thread...Looks like this will be another great B&M themed layout.
(What's with you B&M modellers and having nicely done layouts...must be the water they drink...right, Mikey?? )
Seriously, James...looking forward to more updates on your layout progress!
Ken.
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Although it's hot in the attic by noon, and I've been waiting for M-E weathered Code 83 rail for 6 months now (LHS tells me 3-5 more weeks), I have some progress to show:
I've laid 4 switches on the easterly lead. The spur to the right is spiked Code 55, and henceforward I'll think more seriously when I hear or read "handlaid in Code 55" (or 40, for that matter); I've glued Code 55 down previously (guardrails on the Rowley River bridge), which I find a lot easier. BTW, I resized this picture with DigiKam on FreeBSD, which seems to have avoided the jaggies that M$ Photo Editor gave my earlier images.
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Looks great!
Bill Shanaman
New Haven RR
Hartford Division
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