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’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 [...]
Here’s a picture of the extruded insulation foam being applied to the door. I cut the sheets until they were a rough fit, laid down the liquid nails, then weighed it down with books, clamps, and other heavy stuff. I ended up putting on four 1/2″ sheets, but I think 2 sheets would have been [...]
Here’s a picture of the benchwork for my model railroad. I’m using a 36″x80″ hollow core door and plans taken directly from Marty McGuirk’s book N Scale Model Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby. The plans are pretty simple. You need a hollow core door (they come in various sizes, mine is the largest), four [...]
I’m working on building a small layout in my apartment. Here’s a picture of one of my locomotives and some cars. Most of my other locomotives are L&N. I do not think that the BN ever overlapped into L&N territory, but it will on my fictional little layout. I’ll be trying to model the 1970s [...]