Birth, School, Work, Death

[tracker7]

We've lost the Crocodile Hunter.
Just a handful of days left at this apartment.  All the packing and cleaning in the world is on my agenda for today.  The track on my model railroad is being glued down so I don't have to reassemble the layout at the new place.  Books are boxed.  I'm probably going to have a hundred pounds of trash out of my bedroom.

Locals - I'm going to be calling on you for help Friday evening/Saturday morning.  I'll move scads of boxed stuff and small furniture on my own Friday morning and afternoon, but the couches and some of my bookshelves are going to require assistance.  Compensation in pizza and good moving karma.

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[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

To divulge into some pure geekyness for a moment here...

What gauge railway have you got? Any particular brand of locos and carriages? And is it a layout of your own design, or based of some real-world location?

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

I'm a dedicated N-scaler. My locomotives are a mix - the showpieces are from Atlas (3 SD-50s and 2 SD-60s) and a lovely Kato C30-7. Not as showy, but just as loved - a Bachmann Spectrum Dash 8-40CW and a surprisingly good Life-Like SD-9.

Most of the cars are open hoppers, with a smattering of others here and there. Even one novelty car - Walthers put out a 50th Anniversary double-stack container car a few years back.

The layout, right now, is just track on an interior door. Eventually, it'll be modeled on the eastern Kentucky/southern West Virginia region, where my mom grew up. Lots of holidays spent there, watching long strings of Chessie System coal trains rumble by.

My locomotives are all decorated for Eastern US roads - CSX and Norfolk Southern, with a Conrail loco in there for good measure. NS and CSX are the prominent railroads around here, with RJ Corman headquartered nearby and operating a yard and maintenance facility just north of downtown.

[cybogoblin.livejournal.com]

Sounds like good stuff. I was raised on OO/HO scale steam, mainly Great Western Railway. I don't have the room for a layout myself, but maybe one day.

Make sure you get some pics of the layout at some point, I'd love to see it.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Searched for GWR pictures over at railpictures.net a little while ago. Them's some fine looking steamers.

I built a testbed for this layout on a 2'x4' flooring panel - http://www.thortrains.net/nscale/nminis1.html and http://www.naisp.net/mfischer/m_train2.htm have some very nice plans for small railroads.

I'm going to get some in-progress pictures soon, hopefully before the end of the month. It'll be a good impetus for me to do more on the layout.