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Southern Ry. East S-Line: September 2012

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Monday, September 10, 2012. Layout Construction I: Shelf Benchwork. The Eastern S-Line layout will be multilevel with three levels of operating railroad and staging above and below the layout, all connected by helices. Like all multilevel layouts, there is a premium on having the decks as thin as possible so there is more room for sceniced, operating layout. Bottom of Layout Shelf. Monday, September 3, 2012. Givens and Druther...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: November 2014

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Track Plan I - Levels 1 and 2. See my Givens and Druthers ( Part I. It looks like this will have four or five visible levels. The top level, which is above head height,is the west staging yard, representing Oyama Yard in Hickory, NC. Im calling this Level 0. Monday, November 24, 2014. Modeled Area - Update. After starting construction, I decided that have a shelf devoted to only one train a day in ...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Track Plan I - Levels 1 & 2

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Track Plan I - Levels 1 and 2. See my Givens and Druthers ( Part I. It looks like this will have four or five visible levels. The top level, which is above head height,is the west staging yard, representing Oyama Yard in Hickory, NC. I'm calling this Level 0. The back side of this is now in the train house. Here is a picture of the bridge. Level 1: Conover and Newton. Level 2: Conover and Catawba.

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Givens & Druthers III - The Trains

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Saturday, December 28, 2013. Givens and Druthers III - The Trains. I just included the schedules as far as Hickory, since that will be the end of the modeled railroad. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Givens and Druthers III - The Trains. The Model Railroader's Notebook. Operations Night In North Carolina on the Piedmont and Western RR! Electrical wars. Part 12: new turnout parts. The Blue Ridge and White Mountain RR.

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Operations I - Sample Train Orders

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Sunday, February 16, 2014. Operations I - Sample Train Orders. Miles from Station Siding Other. 00 West End Sevier Yard - yard. East End Two Tracks). West End Two Tracks). 23 Coster - yard. 46 Black Oak - 56. 82 Powell 104 10. 134 Heiskell - 45. 156 Chestnut Ridge - -. 199 East Siding 116 160. 209 Clinton - yard. 246 Laurel 71 5. 336 Poplar 55 7. 356 Oliver Springs - 15. 361 L and N. Jct., Tenn. - -. 415 Blair 115 50. Made Com...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Trains in the Trainhouse!

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Trains in the Trainhouse! Okay, no trains yet, but at least the first piece of the layout. Yes, it's little high, but this is the west end of the west staging yard. There are twelve tracks. Tracks 2 through 11 are stub ended, and Track 1 connects to Track 12 with a loop that goes over a bridge over the other ten. Here's a picture of the top of the staging yard. You can also see some of the 100:1 curren...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Layout Construction III - Backdrop & Valance

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Sunday, February 16, 2014. Layout Construction III - Backdrop and Valance. My backdrops are made using aluminum flashing. This is available in various widths in fifty foot rolls. That long enough to all around the train house with no joints. Here's the finished backdrop with the framing for the valance. Backdrop and Valance Frame. Unpainted Backdrop with some Valance Brackets. And Givens and Druthers II. This will be painted w...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: Modeled Area - Update

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Monday, November 24, 2014. Modeled Area - Update. After starting construction, I decided that have a shelf devoted to only one train a day in each direction wasn't a good use of space. Also, I have a bunch of the Fox Valley Models Siverside coal gons on order. I dropped the portions of the C&NW branch to Gastonia, and filled in the missing section of the S-Line through Claremont and Catawba. See the previous post. I recently m...

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: August 2014

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Tuesday, August 5, 2014. Trains in the Trainhouse! Okay, no trains yet, but at least the first piece of the layout. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Trains in the Trainhouse! The Model Railroader's Notebook. Operations Night In North Carolina on the Piedmont and Western RR! Electrical wars. Part 12: new turnout parts. The Blue Ridge and White Mountain RR. Modeling the CNW in Milwaukee, 1957. Grain to Export Elevators.

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Southern Ry. East S-Line: June 2013

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Southern Ry. East S-Line. Modeling the Southern Railway's S-Line in the 1970s. Sunday, June 23, 2013. Layout Construction II: Roadbed and Track. I used spline roadbed on my last layout and will continue it on this one. Here is a picture of the results, and then well get to the details. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Layout Construction II: Roadbed and Track. The Model Railroader's Notebook. Operations Night In North Carolina on the Piedmont and Western RR! Electrical wars. Part 12: new turnout parts.