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This will be the locomotive storage tracks at the e/e of the staging yard. This is the e/e of the staging yard. There are 11 tracks, each are 20-25 feet long. I will have to do something about the light here! Here is the w/e of the staging yard. This is an unknown industry...

This will be a large grain elevator, it can handle 36 grain cars. During an op session, 3 road units, ( AC4400's or SD90's ) will be sent out here to pull both elevators and robotize a 50 car grain train, ( I haven't figured out if I will use a mid train, or try and put a tail end pusher on)...

This will be a small grain elevator. Approx. 14 cars to be spotted here.

This will be an auto compound. Someone will get the lucky job of pulling 10 empties and spotting 10 loads while crossing the mainline!

This will be a cement plant, they will get approx. 12 loads of cement.

Here is a drywall factory, they will get empty center beam flats and box cars in, loads will be pulled.

This will be a particle board factory. Loads of wood chips and tank cars of glue in, finished lumber in box cars or center beam flat cars out.

This will be a factory that makes roofing shingles. They will get car loads of different color sand in hoppers, and tank cars of asphalt in, and loaded box cars of finished shingles will be pulled out.

This is the diesel shops at the east end of the main yard.

These are all the industrial areas on the layout. This is going to be a car repair shop / small industrial yard.

I did some work on the layout the other night and finally got some pictures posted. I'm using the foam board method cut and carved then covered with plaster cloth. I'll try something different this time! It's amazing what a little green does!

I saw one of these in a post a while back, and can't seem to find who makes them or when they were released. Can anyone help me? They are red and I think they are 65' long used for scrap metal.

I'm going to start doing a bit of scenery tonight, with a product called 'Rigid Wrap'. I hope I can remember how to post pictures!

What does everyone use to make hills and mountains? What is your technique and what supplies do you use?

Hello everyone, I haven't done much with the layout, however, my 4 year old son is to the age now where he likes running trains downstairs! So I have a live in operating buddy! I want to start doing some scenery, as the track work is all done and been running for a while with no problems. I...

Fifer, great work! Just a quick question, what kind of plaster did you use for mountains?

I did a bit more work on the layout over the summer. I did manage to connect the staging yard to the rest of the layout, and had a train make an entire loop over the layout. It took 13 minutes. I'm just having trouble getting decent pictures with my Canon Elph, it's 6 mega pixels, but there are...

Wow, you did an excellent job! Very realistic!

Great progress! I'll be watching this thread!

Yes it was! ( as a matter of fact, I'm still not finished the staging yard behind the furnaces!) It might have been easier to lay the track BEFORE I put the benchwork up!