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Re: Place you orders for flex track
Thanks, Bill, for all your efforts.? Dave McBrayer? Auburn, CA? ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 13:46 Bill Lane via <bill=[email protected]> wrote:
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Place you orders for flex track
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýForwarding Jon¡¯s email below. It is all 100% real now. ? Call 636-349-1112 or orders@...? ? Thank You, ? See my layout progress at:
? From: Jon microengineering.com [mailto:jon@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 8:52 PM To: Bill Lane Cc: BRIAN JACKSON; dan.mastro@... Subject: S Scale Flex Track. ? Bill, ? We now have the S Scale flex track in our system and are taking orders. The numbers and retail price are as follows; ? Un-weathered ? 10-142??????????????? Code 100? ??????? ?$75.00 for a bundle of 6 10-144 ??????????????? Code 83?? ????????? ?$75.00 for a bundle of 6 10-146 ??????????????? Code 70??????????? $75.00 for a bundle of 6 ? Weathered ? 12-142??????????????? Code 100???????? $78.00 for a bundle of 6 12-144??????????????? Code 83 ??????????? $78.00 for a bundle of 6 12-146??????????????? Code 70??????????? $78.00 for a bundle of 6????????? ? ? Pass the word and we will get to it before too long.????????????? ? Thank you, ? Jon Dwiggins Owner Micro Engineering Company 660-651-1931 (cell) 636-349-1112 (office) ? |
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý Bob McCarthy owned a layout (built by someone else) very similar to the Gumstump & Snowshoe; he brought it to a Savannah RPM many years ago and I took the attached photos of it :
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
I've always been fond of Chuck Yungkurth's Gum Stump & Snowshoe.? I was building an expanded version (2'x10') in HO before I switched to S.? My first S Scale railroad was an even greater expansion on the concept when I unfortunately had to tear it down to make way for some basement work. (Sorry no pictures exist of the S version...)
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
I've long been fascinated by John Armstorng's Pratt Street Manfacturers' Railway, attached. ?Designed to fit 22-1/2" x 12' in O scale. Also check out Rob Chant's track planning blog: Charles Weston San Antonio
On Friday, March 7, 2025, 08:06:49 AM CST, JGG KahnSr via groups.io <jacekahn@...> wrote:
Perhaps the ultimate choice for me (if I ever get that far) is included in Arendt's book; having long owned a hard copy of it, I just picked up the CD for it at the local train show a week or two ago.
I have liked the idea since I first saw in the RMC issue back in the 1970's.
I believe the original Gumstump and Snowshoe was the late Chuck Yungkurth's rethinking of his friend Bill Livingstone's around the room single track point-to-point (whose name escapes me just now) which had appeared in MRR earlier.? Both are free-lanced from
the same geographic area as my fictional Ceres and Canisteo¡ªsouthwestern New York State and northwestern Pennsylvania, a short line also supported by lumbering traffic.
Jace Kahn
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jim & Cheryl Martin <themartins@...>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:37 PM To: S-Scale Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [S-Scale] S Scale switching layout plan ?
Hi Tom
If you are looking for a small switching layout plan there are hundreds if not thousands to choose from. You didn't say how large a space you want to fill.
The easiest way to go is to find a prototype track drawing at a small location and simply copy it. That's what Tony Koester calls a Layout Design Element. In my case, the small end-of-branch at Port Dover,
Ontario appealed to me. See below. It ended at the Lake Erie shoreline and had only six turnouts. For space considerations, I combined the fish plant and coal dealer spurs into one. What you see below was removable from my layout and travelled thousands of
miles to dozens of train shows.? For all of it's simplicity, switching a train could take a half hour or more. Especially if done at prototypical speeds and using prototypical practices.?
Two good websites to check out are those of Lance Mindheim () and Carl Arendt (). Lance has written numerous articles about prototypically operating deceptively simple track layouts based on actual locations. His modelling and photography are superb.
I'm a big fan of tiny layouts and the late Carl Arendt built a massive website for micro and mini layouts. Even if you are not pressed for room, the problem-solving ideas in these clever plans are transferable
to larger spaces.
Cheers
Jim Martin.?
p.s. I too always had a hankering to build the Gumstump and Snowshoe.
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
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Perhaps the ultimate choice for me (if I ever get that far) is included in Arendt's book; having long owned a hard copy of it, I just picked up the CD for it at the local train show a week or two ago.
I have liked the idea since I first saw in the RMC issue back in the 1970's.
I believe the original Gumstump and Snowshoe was the late Chuck Yungkurth's rethinking of his friend Bill Livingstone's around the room single track point-to-point (whose name escapes me just now) which had appeared in MRR earlier.? Both are free-lanced from
the same geographic area as my fictional Ceres and Canisteo¡ªsouthwestern New York State and northwestern Pennsylvania, a short line also supported by lumbering traffic.
Jace Kahn
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Jim & Cheryl Martin <themartins@...>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 2:37 PM To: S-Scale Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [S-Scale] S Scale switching layout plan ?
Hi Tom
If you are looking for a small switching layout plan there are hundreds if not thousands to choose from. You didn't say how large a space you want to fill.
The easiest way to go is to find a prototype track drawing at a small location and simply copy it. That's what Tony Koester calls a Layout Design Element. In my case, the small end-of-branch at Port Dover,
Ontario appealed to me. See below. It ended at the Lake Erie shoreline and had only six turnouts. For space considerations, I combined the fish plant and coal dealer spurs into one. What you see below was removable from my layout and travelled thousands of
miles to dozens of train shows.? For all of it's simplicity, switching a train could take a half hour or more. Especially if done at prototypical speeds and using prototypical practices.?
Two good websites to check out are those of Lance Mindheim () and Carl Arendt (). Lance has written numerous articles about prototypically operating deceptively simple track layouts based on actual locations. His modelling and photography are superb.
I'm a big fan of tiny layouts and the late Carl Arendt built a massive website for micro and mini layouts. Even if you are not pressed for room, the problem-solving ideas in these clever plans are transferable
to larger spaces.
Cheers
Jim Martin.?
p.s. I too always had a hankering to build the Gumstump and Snowshoe.
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David McBrayer
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