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In this week’s T-Trak Group Project video blog on MRVP, Kent visits with Rehab My Railroad host Chuck Sable to see how his C&NW-themed module is progressing. MR’s Eric White also shares structure-building insights related to his Philly-themed module. And you won’t want to miss the world-premiere of MR Contributing Editor Pelle Søeborg’s first-ever N scale effort!
Chuck’s module also has plug ports so to work it needs to be connected to the command station.
Elkin Park has accessory ports and plug ports installed. To work this module needs to be connected to the command station at all times.
looks good Eric and Chuck train stations will work well here Kato and Microtrains have passenger sets this will work well for them. Pelle’s module looks good but UPS and Kent tossing it in the last video knocked some stuff over it will have to be rebuilt because it spent two days on a UPS flight from Germany.
Excellent progress on these modules. I'm impressed with anyone who can scratch build structures to make them look like the real ones when no kits are available. Always good to have just a rural scene for trains to run through as it appears they're traveling from one town to another. Looking forward to the next blog!
Merry Christmas to all of you!
Allan
With respect to the tower and turret, when was the station built? In Richfield, MN the SOO line (I believe) built what the locals referred to as the "winky tower" (moved from its original location). I grew up with the tower but no one seemed to know why it existed. Reading some historical literature on the time in the 1940s, the tower is mention and said to have been built because of troop movements on the SOO line during WWII. I was never sure if it was an alternate control tower that would help to dispatch trains or whether it was intended as a defensive tower that could provide cover. In any case, the tower that you showed is taller but of the same design as the "winky
tower". It may have served the same purpose in the early 1940s.
It's looking good! What trains will be running on this T-Track layout?
Love the Elkins Park train station T-track module. And the apartment building is done well too. I don't remember the cafe though unless it is across the track from the station. I think there is a home next to the apartment building. Just 1/2 mile up the line is the Chelten Hills MRR in another old station. At least it was when I was last in Philly at the holidays, perhaps 10 years ago. Fantastic working lift bridge right in the center of the layout room.
Wow, all three of these modules look great, can't wait to see them all attached into a layout. I've used a box cutter for foam shaping, but found that a nice sharp, flexible, thin-bladed paring knife with a 4 inch blade works great cutting foam, just be cautious when cutting.
Neat stuff. So what's the knife that David recommends for foam?????