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….....................................--- Layout Help -- Ed's Work Pt 1 ---======================================

Time to introduce UP's N scale Canyon Division's newest and only current additional worker, Ed. A little bit about ED.

Ed and I met for the first time a couple months back. He is a Blanding, UT native. I've been here about 30 years and we had never met even thought the population is under 4,000. Dottie, my wife, goes to an exercise class and met Ed and his wife there and introduced him to me. We hit it off right away and he has helped a lot on the layout in the last couple months. This is his first model railroad experience and has been enjoying it.

He just pasted mid 60's and drove truck for over 30 years delivering petroleum products throughout the western states and is now retired. He lost a lower leg to diabetes a couple years ago and it is painful to stand for longer periods for him. As with any layout there is a lot that can be done sitting and he has been busy making trees, painting vehicles and helping soldering and assembling electrical components for the layout. The following is some but not all of his work.

Ed and I started looking on the internet for vehicles that he could paint and that we would need for various scenes. We then ordered vehicles from igMakes on eBay (above) and ....

..... OutLand Models (above) and ....

..... GHQ and Royal Models (above). They all have good models with different pricing and skill level needs for assembly. IgMakes and Rasputen N Scale Vehicles are the least expensive. They are nice with little or no assembly needed with lots of cars and some trucks to fit our time period of pre-mid 70's. The other's had more in the way of commercial vehicles with different degrees of assembly required. The layout is dominated by industrial scenes so we need trucks. There is the edge of a small town where you would see more cars and workers at some of the industries would go to work in cars and pickups.

Ed started with the hardest model to assemble, the logging truck shown above from GHQ. I wouldn't of gotten it together probably. Lots of very small detailed parts. Ed got the job done even with shaking hands.

More on 'shaking hands'. When I started back into N scale a few years back I wondered if I had made a mistake since I also had shaking hands at times and everything seemed so small. I found that over time as I worked more and more with assembling small items and painting them the shaking got less and less. Ed has found this also to be true and he says the shaking has decreased a lot just in a couple months. If this is a problem you have maybe try sticking it out a little longer and see if N scale can help in that department with you also. I'm sure its not a fix for everyone but hopefully for some of you.

Above are a number of cars from Rasputan-N Scale Vehicles that are quite nice for the price (as low as $4 each). Contact him at BFedoroff@twmi.rr.com for a long/lots of cars list. He also posts on TrainBoard and Railwire.

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More info and a print file link for the warren truss road bridge ( HERE ).

Ed's made a lot more trees that what is shown above. These will go on the sawmill scene along with some others.

It's nice to have someone else working on the layout......thanks Ed for the work you've done and will be doing.

To be continued and a link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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