HO Scale CP Rail - progress video

This is a short clip of my HO scale model railway set in British Columbia. The video is meant as a work-in-progress report for friends but for anyone new looking in - welcome - and to bring you up to speed, the model is only 12 foot by 12 foot, mainly running on shelves 12 inches deep with the exception of the main yard which is 24 inches deep. I model a ficticious sub somewhere south of Hope, BC, loosely in the 1980's period. The line is predominently CP Rail with an occasional invasion by CN and BCR. 4-part way-bills are used. The room has to work as a guest bedroom and the sofa therefore expands into the middle of the room to provide a double bed. Eventually, there will be a mini wardrobe underneath the main yard as well.

You can see the first small yard (Thorpe) is almost finished but the main marshalling yard (Western) is still largely a "plywood pacific". The Forest section is complete (467 trees, two moose and a bear) and the lower town (Portal) up to the freeway overpass is again under construction. (For those looking in for the first time, the track then continues underneath the upper yards of Thorpe and Western to hidden storage areas where there is a reversing loop controlled from the main panel).

The lighting is usually strip lighting with daylight-toned bulbs. However, the evening and night effects are coloured spotlights (keeping the direction true so the sun sets only in one direction) and you can see the I have made a start on the building lights. (Very few lights in the forest at night you will notice).

Thanks for the ideas I borrowed from your layouts guys - see if you can spot where I got my inspiration from!

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• Rail
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• Pacific
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• Columbia
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• CN
• BCR

[Kvr3005]

Do you use dcc ????

[Chipmunk493]

No, Straight DC. There are four cabs and each one can be dialled in to any one of the nine sections of track. Two of the cabs are fixed points and the other two are on hand -held controllers with leads. DCC was considered but was ruled out partly on the grounds of cost and partly due to the conflict between DCC and automatic track cleaners (of which there are four - one per controller)

[104trucker]

Waht happened to the Burlington Northern Car at 0:44?

[Chipmunk493]

I have some surface mounted point(switch) motors. The BN boxcar was cut open to help hide the motors by being a ground mounted boxcar/storage shed. There were to be a few others but that is as far as I went with it at that stage. Was considering a road overpass with wide concrete base legs to hide the motors after that

[keytonsgangsta]

I love your layout it's soo nice!! Were on earth did you get the BCR rdc bud cars??

[Chipmunk493]

@keytonsgangsta Thanks. Shame the model is only a month or so away from being broken up due to a house move. The BCR rdcs are made by Life Like and have individual numbers. One of them I picked up at an NMRA meeting and the other was bought on Ebay in Canada and brought to the UK by a very long and tortuous route. There is a CP Rail rdc on the line as well

[runawayfreak]

@Chipmunk493 May I Ask what the difference with the dc and dcc, or ac.

[shenry1973]

Looks great! Good to see a bit of B.C. in Britain!

[27761041017]

I love it

[ddrusa]

nice set up