I started laying out my track to make sure everything is going to fit together. That’s the first picture. The second picture is my “finalized” track plan (I’m sure there’ll be additions and changes along the way). I was pleasantly surprised to see how well everything went together. Kudos to the Xtrkcad team on the [...]
After much deliberation, I decided that the hollow core door layout wasn’t what I wanted. So instead of hanging on to it, I pulled up the track and sent it out the door (in four dumpster sized pieces). What you see above is my brand new track plan. It’s all Kato Unitrack, N scale, and [...]
Here is my first airbrushed and decaled rail model. The car is a Bachmann 40′ boxcar. This is the car I’ve been using as an adapter car between my Rapido equipped locomotives and my MT coupled rolling stock. I used an Airbrush City airbrush and compressor. The model is NOT prototypical, but I think it [...]
Work is now complete on the inner loop of my layout. I laid the last piece of track just a few minutes ago. The parts I have completed are in red. Next I’ll tackle the turnouts at the upper left and the tunnel tracks. While still difficult, track laying is becoming a bit easier for [...]
I finally got some more track work done. I completed the curve coming off the upper left of the crossing section all the way around to the next turnout. Then I completed the upper industrial siding and placed the turnout for the lower industrial siding. A few more pieces of flextrack and I should have [...]
I finally outfitted most of my rolling stock and locomotives with Micro-Trains couplers. I also decided that I want to try to do a little derailment scene on my layout (It’ll be in the upper right hand corner if you want to reference the picture below). I have a Model Power ICG SD45 that is [...]
I’ve finally started the trackwork on my layout. It’ll probably be slow going until I figure out what I’m doing. This picture shows a 30º crossing and a piece of flextrack. To the left you can see where I glued down some track and then took it back up and scraped off the glue. I’ll [...]
Here is my latest trackplan. It is based on the Blue Creek Railroad and on plans from John Armstrong’s Track Planning for Realistic Operation. I’m leaning towards the ??? becoming a dairy farm. I can drop off grain and empty tanks and leave with full tanks and empty grain cars. The green area is base [...]