FIRST AND FOREMOST, A BIG FAT THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE’S HELP AND INPUT TO GET ME HERE TODAY!!!
Ok, it’s been a year since I first posted on The Red Rock & Northern. http://cs.trains.com/forums/1229526/ShowPost.aspx Man what a plan! To this day this I still think this plan is something. It was the plan I was looking for several years to get back into model railroading and switch back HO at the same time. The RR&N offered continuous running as well operation potential. Most importantly the trains seamed to go somewhere (especially after I connected the 2 staging tracks into a continuous hidden loop[:D]). It needed just a more few tweaks to make it mine and I was off and running.
I was fortunate enough to be able to exchange a few ideas back and forth with Jerry Boudreaux - the designer. He shared that he had built the layout in Sn3 and shared this photo
I made few changes here and there and had a few others in mind. You can see from the other RR&N posts the up and downs so I won’t go through them here. http://cs.trains.com/forums/1510434/ShowPost.aspx
During the last several weeks I have been able to get back into the layout in put in some serious time. Most of the track is in (a few minor sidings need some attention), backdrop up and painted blue and the foam base is painted a dirt color. Justa basic dirt wash to break up all of that blue. A funny thing though, it made the layout look smaller and the trains longer… Go figure.
But I can run trains now!!!
However, the track plan I have now and the one I started out with are not even close (but that’s ok). This project has helped me define wh