Hey...
Can you guys stand one more S&R layout?
I've finally got to actually see a train moving on my layout! Here's the history...I decided last Fall to build a railroad that I started in High School, 30 years ago. I started over from scratch this time. I bought a new 'Nine N Scale railroads' book. Pretty much the same as it was 30 years ago. Built the framwork, bought a piece of Homasote, laid out the track with sectional pieces as shown in the book. Traced it all, laid out the cut lines, removed the track, cut and assembled the top, glued down all the cork roadbed, installed the track. Instead of using the sectional this time, I used all Atlas Code 80 flex track. I powered up the layout by tying all the seperate blocks together, just to test it out. And last nite, ran my first test run. Pretty successful. It needs a few tweaks. So, right now, I am in the process of soldering all the joints and beginning to mount the Atlas undertable switch machines. Thinking about how I'm going to layout some buildings.
Here's the link to the photo's and a short video.
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e212/racerdb/Model%20Railroad/
Any and all constructive criticism is welcome.
Dave
Can you guys stand one more S&R layout?
I've finally got to actually see a train moving on my layout! Here's the history...I decided last Fall to build a railroad that I started in High School, 30 years ago. I started over from scratch this time. I bought a new 'Nine N Scale railroads' book. Pretty much the same as it was 30 years ago. Built the framwork, bought a piece of Homasote, laid out the track with sectional pieces as shown in the book. Traced it all, laid out the cut lines, removed the track, cut and assembled the top, glued down all the cork roadbed, installed the track. Instead of using the sectional this time, I used all Atlas Code 80 flex track. I powered up the layout by tying all the seperate blocks together, just to test it out. And last nite, ran my first test run. Pretty successful. It needs a few tweaks. So, right now, I am in the process of soldering all the joints and beginning to mount the Atlas undertable switch machines. Thinking about how I'm going to layout some buildings.
Here's the link to the photo's and a short video.
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e212/racerdb/Model%20Railroad/
Any and all constructive criticism is welcome.
Dave