Final Trackplans for the BCR Dawson Creek Subdivision

This is a short posting to show the finished plans for my layout. I´ll add a mid level on the helix section .I´m still working on the helix rebuild.

Lower Level.There is only the hidden staging below that.

Middle level with siding.The siding can hold a train with up to 12 wagons,2 engines and caboose.

Upper Level with a small village added to the top of the Helix.

More pictures of te rebuild will follow as soon as I´m making some progress.

Changing directions..... second edition

After I have done the changes at the yard, I still was not happy with the placment of the helix and how it dominates the whole room. I wanted to change the direction of the helix for some time and finaly last week I decided to rebuild the helix. So I started to remove the foam from the top of it,removed all track and benchwork and at the end I got a big empty space.I moved the base benchwork for the helix to one corner of the room, added some new wood around it and now I´m happy with the look of the room. It´s still a lot of work to do but I had a good start. I will add the parts of the helix the next evenings and hope to get some trains running from Chetwynd to Dawson Creek next week.

New benchwork started

Added some plywood 

More pictures will follow soon as progress goes on.

MLW RS18 #615 kitbash

I started my first engine projekt ever. This will be BCR #615. I started with an Atlas Trainman RS32, an undecorated RS32 shell, bought some RS18 conversion parts from Kaslo Shops, some detailparts from Miniatures by Eric an started the conversion. I cut off the corners of the long hood and filled them with some plastic sheet. and sanded it into shape. Next step was to remove the front of the cab and glue the Kaslo part to the cab. I removed the Rs32 hood from the Atlas shell and added the Kaslo short low hood. I have to thin out the inside of the hood to fit above the frontweight. All in all it took me two evenings to complete the first steps of the conversion.

 The Pilots are Resin parts from Kaslo,too. The Kaslo parts are high quality. Great parts. Next step will be adding the two openings to the frontdoors of the long hood and adding the MbE parts to the model. This is the first of three RS18 conversions. There will be second one with low short hood,#624 and the third one will get the high short hood, #602. I´ll use an Atlas RS11 for the high hood conversion. #615 will get Esu or Tsunami sound later. The other two engines have been converted to DCC some time ago so no decoder is needed for those.