steve1
Western Thunderer
This is a revised version of, would you believe, Duncan's Mine. The idea is to represent a mine loading pocket in the Upper Peninsula of North Michigan, plus deliveries of supplies to the mine and the nearby town of Pontiac Flats. It is set in the year 1959, a couple of years before the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic was absorbed into the SOO Line.
Whereas the original was 8" wide and built, partially, on a baseboard donated to me by one Neil Rushby, DM2 is a foot wide. It is also considerably longer. The other main difference is the extra road, taking them up to four.
There are no points on the layout (nor were there on DM1) and it all runs from a a sector plate. The power feeds only from the sector plate, thus each road is a section where a loco can be left. Power is transferred using a sliding piano wire bolt into square section brass tube. The same system locates the track in place.
I use the term finescale as the track is Micro Engineering Code 70 and there is a rolling project of fitting all the stock with finer Code 88, as they are known, profile wheels. This translates, more or less, as an EM equivalent to the P4 standards of 3.5m scale's P87.
Here are a few pics
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I actually added more to the shed interior before adding the roof.
The main structures are kits, Knightwing and Walthers, although I would like to replace the loader with a scratchbuilt one. There is also a conveyer to be added to the loader's side.
The backscene painter's style might be recognised by some folk; it's a Neil Ripley work, to whom I give thanks.
steve
Whereas the original was 8" wide and built, partially, on a baseboard donated to me by one Neil Rushby, DM2 is a foot wide. It is also considerably longer. The other main difference is the extra road, taking them up to four.
There are no points on the layout (nor were there on DM1) and it all runs from a a sector plate. The power feeds only from the sector plate, thus each road is a section where a loco can be left. Power is transferred using a sliding piano wire bolt into square section brass tube. The same system locates the track in place.
I use the term finescale as the track is Micro Engineering Code 70 and there is a rolling project of fitting all the stock with finer Code 88, as they are known, profile wheels. This translates, more or less, as an EM equivalent to the P4 standards of 3.5m scale's P87.
Here are a few pics
: I actually added more to the shed interior before adding the roof.
The main structures are kits, Knightwing and Walthers, although I would like to replace the loader with a scratchbuilt one. There is also a conveyer to be added to the loader's side.
The backscene painter's style might be recognised by some folk; it's a Neil Ripley work, to whom I give thanks.
steve
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