About three or so years ago I did a make over of the Arrowhead town ship but it still remained a lumber town with the saw mill being the biggest industry. Arrowhead was at the end of a shuttle line but as I had introduced the option of DCC power to the mainline, I changed the shuttle into a reverse loop at both ends of the line so that it could also run on DCC. There was also a spur introduced at Arrowhead to allow shuttling between the saw-mill at Pointrock town and the one in Arrowhead.
AS IT WAS BEFORE TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRY:
TOO MUCH WOOD.......
I began to think of changing one of the saw-mill towns. Two saw-mills on one layout was one too many!
I was fortunate to be able to save a whole set of scratch built drift-mine buildings from being thrown into a skip. The structures were built by Mike Garforth for his indoor layout. He was clearing it all out to embark on a ‘N’ scale layout.
To enable me to use them out side I had to re-roof them, re-back them with foam board, treat all of the wood with waterproofing preservative and make impermeable bases.
I also had to change dimensions of some of the buildings, build extra sections and add mote depth. The arrangement of the buildings also needed to fit the area. The tungsten lighting was replaced with leds.
Mike had also included a GN15 railway running along the top deck which had to be altered to the new arrangement. I rewired the power using an 22vAC to 12 DC pcb together with a timed shuttle control.
AS IT WAS BEFORE TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRY:
TOO MUCH WOOD.......
I began to think of changing one of the saw-mill towns. Two saw-mills on one layout was one too many!
I was fortunate to be able to save a whole set of scratch built drift-mine buildings from being thrown into a skip. The structures were built by Mike Garforth for his indoor layout. He was clearing it all out to embark on a ‘N’ scale layout.
To enable me to use them out side I had to re-roof them, re-back them with foam board, treat all of the wood with waterproofing preservative and make impermeable bases.
I also had to change dimensions of some of the buildings, build extra sections and add mote depth. The arrangement of the buildings also needed to fit the area. The tungsten lighting was replaced with leds.
Mike had also included a GN15 railway running along the top deck which had to be altered to the new arrangement. I rewired the power using an 22vAC to 12 DC pcb together with a timed shuttle control.
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