Re: What's On Your Workbench 1/2023
Posted by Mike Trent on Jan 17, 2024; 4:00pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-On-Your-Workbench-1-2023-tp19344p19381.html
OK, here ya go. This image shows my entire layout and, if you can see that small mobile table, my workbench that I have been using for about 12 years. Yep, that's it. On that little thing I built #75, the flanger, Mail and Baggage #13, numerous freight cars, everything. Space was a real premium for me in Alabama and it still is. Naturally, I do my painting outside. My small tools are in a tackle box at the bottom and paint and other small necessities in that small cardboard box.
As to the layout, the area to the left of the depot is "North Dickey" which is being completed now. Ties are ballasted and dressed, ready for ground cover and then rail. If you don't think you have room for a layout or even a workbench, you might be surprised what you can do in a small space. In Alabama, there was a wall which ended my space at the depot. The wye ended where the door was into my room. So it was a lot smaller then.
I've had big layouts in the past, and, to be honest, this is big enough for me. It's as though I'm here in Dickey in 1935. Trains run through here six days a week. Dickey is not a destination. It's a Coaling Station. And a Division point of sorts, considering the three mile Dillon and Keystone Subdivision. When North Dickey is done, I can run a short local North to Dillon and Keystone. In addition to my operation now.
The C&S was the smallest Class 1 Railroad in the Country. Even the orphaned stepchild narrow gauge ran as a Class 1 operation. And mine does too. What a hobby.
Today's trains are ready and visible. Extra #76-#74 East is coming off the wye from Leadville with 10 cars, and Passenger Train No. 70 is arriving from Denver with #9. It takes about 20 minutes to run and set up for the next day and that's about right for me. Still plenty to do on my little empire, but I don't think I'd care to have it any other way.
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-On-Your-Workbench-1-2023-tp19344p19381.html
OK, here ya go. This image shows my entire layout and, if you can see that small mobile table, my workbench that I have been using for about 12 years. Yep, that's it. On that little thing I built #75, the flanger, Mail and Baggage #13, numerous freight cars, everything. Space was a real premium for me in Alabama and it still is. Naturally, I do my painting outside. My small tools are in a tackle box at the bottom and paint and other small necessities in that small cardboard box.
As to the layout, the area to the left of the depot is "North Dickey" which is being completed now. Ties are ballasted and dressed, ready for ground cover and then rail. If you don't think you have room for a layout or even a workbench, you might be surprised what you can do in a small space. In Alabama, there was a wall which ended my space at the depot. The wye ended where the door was into my room. So it was a lot smaller then.
I've had big layouts in the past, and, to be honest, this is big enough for me. It's as though I'm here in Dickey in 1935. Trains run through here six days a week. Dickey is not a destination. It's a Coaling Station. And a Division point of sorts, considering the three mile Dillon and Keystone Subdivision. When North Dickey is done, I can run a short local North to Dillon and Keystone. In addition to my operation now.
The C&S was the smallest Class 1 Railroad in the Country. Even the orphaned stepchild narrow gauge ran as a Class 1 operation. And mine does too. What a hobby.
Today's trains are ready and visible. Extra #76-#74 East is coming off the wye from Leadville with 10 cars, and Passenger Train No. 70 is arriving from Denver with #9. It takes about 20 minutes to run and set up for the next day and that's about right for me. Still plenty to do on my little empire, but I don't think I'd care to have it any other way.
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