Model Railroading > Hide the helix finished

The helix is now covered and for all practical purposed is done. I am waiting for the N scale hikers to finish the scene. The HO hikers are still trekking near the bottom.

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How many turns?

What helix? =P

So it being so well hidden, how do you monitor train progress and deal with derailments?

You can stand up in it and we will be able to look into it via a peep hole.
I don't know the number of turns off hand. There is about 17 inches of clearance on the lower level I think.

Personally, I like having a helix and was not going to hide mine. However, you've motivated me to scenic the top like you have done but not hide the climb up as I like to monitor the climb/descent and, a minor point, but non-model railroaders who visit find them intriguing.

Thanks for your sharing the project and giving me the idea.

Rick

The hikers are out and about.

Rick, our club has two helixes and only the tops are covered. We have an open house every December and your are correct, the visitors always watch the trains going round and round. If I can find photos I will post them. If I can't find them I will take new ones next wee.
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rschonfelder Wrote:
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> Personally, I like having a helix and was not
> going to hide mine. However, you've motivated me
> to scenic the top like you have done but not hide
> the climb up as I like to monitor the
> climb/descent and, a minor point, but non-model
> railroaders who visit find them intriguing.
>
> Thanks for your sharing the project and giving me
> the idea.
>
> Rick

Great job on hiding your helix! My N Scale layout has two of them, the first picture is taken from the top of one looking back towards the other one. The top of both of mine are a big part of the top level of my 3 level layout and hare probably the best scenic parts of the layout. One has a rock quarry and the other (seen here) a bluff overlooking the layout with cattle grazing. Still need to add the fencing to keep the cows from jumping off a cliff!

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Amazing as it may seem they don't as look around in the hills, say going south from Biggs Junction Oregon on highway 97.

bmalonef45 Wrote:
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> Great job on hiding your helix! My N Scale layout
> has two of them, the first picture is taken from
> the top of one looking back towards the other one.
> The top of both of mine are a big part of the top
> level of my 3 level layout and hare probably the
> best scenic parts of the layout. One has a rock
> quarry and the other (seen here) a bluff
> overlooking the layout with cattle grazing. Still
> need to add the fencing to keep the cows from
> jumping off a cliff!


Excellent job. I believe the helix can be a big part of the scenery.

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What is this Hoosier Hills I see?

Cheers, Jim Fitch
Indian University Alum, B.S. 1984 M.S. 1993

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> What is this Hoosier Hills I see?
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> Cheers, Jim Fitch
> Indian University Alum, B.S. 1984 M.S. 1993


I did the scenery and some building for a man near Mooresville IN some time ago. We just had finished the layout and he passed away 7 years ago. It was his name for the railroad. We had some nice operating sessions on the layout.

I even incorporated an assembly plant with very interesting switching. I grew up near an auto assembly plat and used my knowledge of that to set up the switch jobs.

Ah, just up the road from Martinsville. I used to hang out with a round robin group in Bloomington in the 1990s, Chuck Macklin and a few others. One guy, Brian Lemonds was working on a 1953 DRGW layout but appears to be inactive in recent years.

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