Wortham layout

[Lee Drennen]

Lovely job with the layout Lee, apart from the vehicles being on the wrong side of the road.


Andy.

Yes here in the States we have that problem.

[Lee Drennen]

Worked some more on the layout today. I added a White 9000 Truck that was on the layout originally back in 2012 I rebuilt it and added new decals to it. I have been removing the old landscaping back when I first started this I didn’t know the trick of adding landscaping. Now that I know I want to redo some parts of the layout. The Lumber yard was a little busy yesterday too. Hope you are enjoying the pics of the HO layout I’ll be adding things to it more soon.

[Mini Me]

Excellent progress Lee, Is that 9000 a Sylvan? Needs a 30 foot Fruehauf behind it to make it perfect! :thumb2: Rick H.

[Lee Drennen]

Excellent progress Lee, Is that 9000 a Sylvan? Needs a 30 foot Fruehauf behind it to make it perfect! :thumb2: Rick H.

Yes it is.I like Sylvans Subjects but hate the Resin they use it can’t take any heat and they wrap easy like this trucks doors did over years on the layout. I’m not done rebuilding the trailer for it yet and Mashkin had 40’ mostly Strick trailers of there own but they Drayage for other companies. Fruehauf is my favorite trailer to pull. I’ve pulled many Fruehauf Piggybacks they pull like there’s nothing back there. Glad you like the progress

[Mini Me]

I like the early Fruehaufs.......always thought the were very stylish looking, with the wings on the front of the van body.
I know what you mean about Sylvan's resin, very difficult to work with and undersized as well. Sometimes it's the only game in town and you have to "bite" the bullet. I have his 1940 super power tandem day cab, I was going to use the cab to build a captured French fuel tanker (France military bought some before the outbreak of WW2) but the cab is so small it looks like it belongs on a pick up. Don't think I'll ever build it. Don't forget to snap a few distance shots of the layout so we can see your track plan all layed out. Thanks for posting the progress shots.
Rick H.

[boatman]

I like the early Fruehaufs.......always thought the were very stylish looking, with the wings on the front of the van body.
I know what you mean about Sylvan's resin, very difficult to work with and undersized as well. Sometimes it's the only game in town and you have to "bite" the bullet. I have his 1940 super power tandem day cab, I was going to use the cab to build a captured French fuel tanker (France military bought some before the outbreak of WW2) but the cab is so small it looks like it belongs on a pick up. Don't think I'll ever build it. Don't forget to snap a few distance shots of the layout so we can see your track plan all layed out. Thanks for posting the progress shots.
Rick H.

HI Rick what do you mean by wings on Fruehuaf vans ? as i helped to build them in the late 60's an 70 's an i cant remember wings but it may be as we was CRANE FRUEHAUF that we built them different to your Fruehauf in the
U S A ? AN lee love the layout an that little grey truck with the wood in an i see you have some buildings like i had brilliant moddeling at its best i think
MORE PLEASE
chris b

[Lee Drennen]

HI Rick what do you mean by wings on Fruehuaf vans ? as i helped to build them in the late 60's an 70 's an i cant remember wings but it may be as we was CRANE FRUEHAUF that we built them different to your Fruehauf in the
U S A ? AN lee love the layout an that little grey truck with the wood in an i see you have some buildings like i had brilliant moddeling at its best i think
MORE PLEASE
chris b

He means the little icons on the sides of the old 1940s and 1950s trailers like on these trailers that’s on my layout

[Lee Drennen]

AN lee love the layout an that little grey truck with the wood in an i see you have some buildings like i had brilliant moddeling at its best i think

Chris thank you for the nice complement. I’m trying to put more focus on details this time around with the layout than before

[Jim R]

Hi Lee
I really enjoy the pictures of the layout. It's clear that it's much more than a "train set" - it's a slice of American history.
Jim

[Lee Drennen]

but the cab is so small it looks like it belongs on a pick up.

Rick those White WC22 cabs were very small like a 1940s Ford pickup. I had a White 9000 real truck at one time they shared the same cab. My dad drove a White WC22 back in the late 1950s. He said when them old White six cylinder flathead Mustang Engines had so much compression at night when the would backfire it would light up the whole Highway.

[Lee Drennen]

Hi Lee
I really enjoy the pictures of the layout. It's clear that it's much more than a "train set" - it's a slice of American history.
Jim

Thanks Jim. Yes it is many people better than me Model actual places and make it look so real. I like to build mine on places around my area and people who lived here that made my little area I grew up in a beautiful place to live.

[JayCee]

Hi Lee. That is looking excellent. I don't know much about American trains except how bl**dy long they are. One passed bye whilst I was driving through Arizona, and I thought it was never going to end. .
John.

[Lee Drennen]

Hi Lee. That is looking excellent. I don't know much about American trains except how bl**dy long they are. One passed bye whilst I was driving through Arizona, and I thought it was never going to end. .
John.

Jaycee. Thanks for the complement on the layout. I’m around trains every day and as much as I enjoy them they sometimes become irritating waiting on one in the Train Yards I go in

[Mini Me]

'At's ok Lee........you're not certifiable until you have spent week-ends along various points enroute of freight trains passing over the Tehachepi Loop or down grade runs into Mojave with the Dynamic brakes screaming on a quad lash-up of SD45 tunnel motors and then you show up in Stockton for an event called WinterRail and show the slides you took to an auditorium of thousands of other "certifiables"......and they go crazy because they are all "Rail Fans"!! :tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out: Believe it or not, some folks actually enjoy being irritated waiting for trains......I am no longer one of them:sad-face:

[adt70hk]

Lee

Completely missed this somehow. What a great layout. Love all the little extra touches, especially the most recent accident!!

Very well done.

Andrew