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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room. ?The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations. ?Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment. ?Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

#27624

Great idea! I'm trying to come up with a smaller,but similar design. I?Ilke the idea of each 1 or2 modules depicting a different aspect of the overall layout. Please keep us informed.

Jim

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:37?AM James Dennis via <jimdennis987=[email protected]> wrote:

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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room.? The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations.? Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment.? Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

#27625

Looks good. Hope the finance committee gives you the OK.

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On January 15, 2024, at 12:48 PM, jim <filmsnotdead@...> wrote:

Great idea! I'm trying to come up with a smaller,but similar design. I?Ilke the idea of each 1 or2 modules depicting a different aspect of the overall layout. Please keep us informed.

Jim

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:37?AM James Dennis via <jimdennis987=[email protected]> wrote:

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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room.? The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations.? Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment.? Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

#27626

Jim,? Looking nice.? I'm a big proponent of modular layouts from my Trolley modelling days. We used to bring modules to meeting sites and set up layouts to operate our trolleys.

Good Luck with yours!

Bill - WF1L

Dover, DE

On Monday, January 15, 2024 at 12:37:14 PM EST, James Dennis via groups.io <jimdennis987@...> wrote:

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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room. ?The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations. ?Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment. ?Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

#27627

Jim have you considered making the dock module larger & have it come off module 1 at ~30deg.?? You haven't explained what the brown boxes represent.? Could the switchback module come off module 4 at an angle to give more running room & move the turnout further from the module joint?? ?Also, why not continue your grade climb through?modules 3 & 4 & back onto 3 so the mine track on 3 is 5 to 6" above 0 & place the mine & bunkers above that?? Move the mine into the back?corner to give better visual separation from the sawmill module or use separate?proscenium setups for modules 1/2 & 3/4/5 to define the 2 spaces?

On my On30 module designs I'm going to model Ontario hardwood logging operations.? Since this operation normally had enormous drying yards I'll just model a spur disappearing behind stacks of drying lumber & through the backdrop.? This will leave the option for loads in/empties out at some future date.? The attached layout shows what one version of my design.

Brian Martin, Hamilton Model Works, Brantford, ON

On Monday, January 15, 2024 at 12:37:15 p.m. EST, James Dennis via groups.io <jimdennis987@...> wrote:

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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room. ?The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations. ?Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment. ?Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

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#27628

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Jim,

I am building a sectional layout in a spare bedroom here in Kauai, HI. I have supported the sections (which are 1-1/2” thick) on 21” metal shelf brackets lagged into the stud framing in the room’s walls. I have been documenting the construction in N-Scale Magazine for the past three years. (Things move slower in the islands!)

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RE: Cameos

While in California, I helped build a couple of cameos that were part of a modular Nn3 logging layout that made the rounds of the train shows. These portrayed a “Landing”, a “Camp”, and Jughandle trestle. (A sawmill/doghole section was under construction when I moved to Hawaii.) As you are planning, each cameo had its own built-in lighting, based on a design by Joe DuVivier. This incorporated LED strips for “ambient” lighting (which could be adjusted for color and brightness) plus a powerful LED spotlight at one end of each cameo that bounced light off a mirror at the other end to create strong daylight shadows. ?See images below, both of the overall set-up and of the individual “scenes”:

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Tom K.

Kauai HI

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Subject: [small-layout-design] New On30 Layout being started

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This is the most current version of my On30 Layout being built in my spare room. ?The layout is a multi Cameo set of modules that suggest a turn of the century mining/logging operation oon the inside passage on the west coast of British Columbia. ?each module features self contained lighting and power for DCC operations. ?Motive mower is geared locomotives and short industrial freight cars. ?feel free to comment. ?Layout module frames have been built and are awaiting final plan authority of the resident accountant. Modules 1&2 form one scene and modules 3&4 are a separate Mine and Log Camp up in the mountains beyond the Logging Mill/Dock.

#27630

Looks really cool. Maybe a little more info might be helpful.? Some questions that come to mind...

Are you planning to operate on it and if so, do you have an operating scheme for this? Understanding some of that might help to identify any problems or concerns. You say modular, does that mean portable (i.e., Freemo) and if so are you planning to interface with other modules?? Is there a set of standards?? Or is this "sectional" as in the a building technique to segment the layout but without the intent to move it.? My layout at home is the latter.

Either way, be careful how close turnouts are to the edges of modules and how elevation change between modules are handled. Also, for the hidden track in the back corner of module 3, give yourself a way to reach it to clean track and deal with derailments.? Murphy loves to operate, too!

For ops, is Mod1 a small terminal yard and is that the log pond? Trains shove empties up from the Mod1 to the camp in Mod 4/5? Bring loads down? Is the dock the interchange with the rest of the world?? So, finished goods from the mill are sent to the dock? Does the dock contain a car float (to bring cars on/off the layout)? Where do the ore cars go? Come from?? Finished goods and supplies sent up to the camps? Equipment to the mine? People up and down? You may have all this figured out, but that's the key to the design. I don't know if you are running a caboose on anything, so that should be planned into your run around and lengths.? Also, would you run 1 train at a time, or more than one.? That should be clear too.

When you say self contained lighting and power, do you mean that each has it's own lighting and power bus connected in sequence A to B, B to A, etcc?? Or does that mean you have a command station or booster for each one and separate DC power supply and bus for each one?? I am not sure if that's what you mean and if so, why are you doing that - to run only 2 modules at a time?? I'd imagine there are other ways to accomplish that with less effort.

Can't wait to see how it progresses.?

Mike