The Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company
Freight terminal Future mine
Beaver Creek
Stock pens
Locomotive servicing
Camp 8
The Building & Structure Company
Cascade Ship chandler Bunyun Millworks Brewery complex Drawing by Ken Lawrence
Passenger Station
Brown & Son Fisheries Oil depot
Rock Harbor
Freight Station
Kalin Ice & Coal
Standard/NG Gauntlet track
Future saw mill
pears three or four operators can be kept reasonably busy. On a couple of test runs with Rail OP®
calling the
pickups and setouts it took nearly an hour to work a train between Black Hawk and Cascade, somewhat surpris- ing considering the mainline distance is only 100 feet.
Design and construction The layout is designed so everything is within arm’s reach. Most of the bench- work is supported by wooden brackets along the wall and the average height of the roadbed is 50″. A useful feature on the benchwork is a drink/tool shelf run- ning the length of the layout just below the fascia. This idea was borrowed from the late Seattle modeler and manufac-
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turer, Brian Ellerby. It works well. Stuff stays off the layout and idle hands have a ledge to rest on.
Highly detailed scenes, such as
towns, industries and some trestles, are built on removable modules. Let’s face it: sooner or later every layout will be torn down for one reason or another. Modules assure that some of the work will be preserved. The scenery between these modules is hardshell (plaster cloth on wire screen). The roadbed be- tween modules is redwood spline topped with Homabed®
. This is a com-
mercial product made of Homasote® that has been milled to a uniform thickness with tapered sides. The HO
size Homabed®
pairs perfectly with
Sn3 track. I used flex-track through- out, code 55 in the logging areas and code 70 elsewhere. The exception is at the engine terminal in Cascade where the track and turnouts are handlaid. The track was weathered before it
was installed. I spray the flex-track with a gray primer, then dust it using a spray can of Floquil Rail Brown. The ties are then randomly stained with various shades of brown and black alco- hol based leather dyes. I draw a single edge razor blade down the rail surface to remove the paint, then polish the railhead with a P-B-L Glistening Pad, a less abrasive version of a Bright Boy®
. NOVEMBER 2012
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