Here it is almost Saturday here in the Finger Lakes and none of you have gotten this started yet! You guys are falling down on the job…
I have finally gotten some trains running after working on the new room for the last several months and doing a lot of scenery in the old room. Feels good even if it is mostly to check the track. This passenger train was the first one through the staging area. Pulled by my largest loco, i figured the long cars and the big engine would find any problems… and it did. Only one turnout gave me any problem at all and that waqs easy to correct.
Since there are no major problem, I started on the upper level which will be an end of the line town someday:
I have been mass producing the Tortiose Assemblys for installing on the new part of the layout. I will need about 3 dozen of these before I am done.
howmus, I know how you feel. Getting to some point where you can say that portion is done.
2 July 06 - waiting for the last turnouts to come in for the backend of the staging area.
22 Aug 06 - after over a month I can say that all of the track work on my lower staging level is done. Track work being defined as track secured, feeders connected, ground throws installed and operational, all soldering done - ya hoo!
This November will mark 1 year for me. Started here on 13 Nov 05.
That whole area now looks more like this. This past Wednesday, I celebrated by having the owner, Craig Berry, of our local LHS (Collectable Caboose) and Mr. Don Z over to have a mini operating session. We got some Tower 55’s working … did our first MU … ran all over the staging tracks and around the loop … it was fun.
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