I have the benchwork done, the track laid and wired except for some sidings. I gotta finish those. Right now I’m beginning to lay some plaster cloth over blue foam substructure, having to learn to do that. I’ve got a bridge to build leading into town, a coal mine to get started. Oh! I gotta finish the streets of that town the bridge is leading into. Heck, I guess I don’t have a goal… just taking it one day at a time. So much to do, so little time.
JaRRell
Well I’m going to break it down by month: September: Buying new motive power to finish out the urban switching module, then detail and work out all the kinks from them. I’m probably going to buy a pair of BLI Alco RSD15s for transfer power, a Canadian Pacific Trainmaster in the Maroon and Gray as some heritage power for the CPR, and a pair of light Canadian Pacific swithers, maybe Walthers GP9Ms (prefered for cost factor) or Atlas MP15s (if I get that raise at work.) October: Build the benchwork and lay the track for the urban switching module. It’s going to be around the walls, two feet wide and be in an L shape across two walls one 9 feet long and one 7 feet. November: Start scratchbuilding and kitbashing on structures for the module. December: Put in the roads and begin senics for the new module, hopefully to have it completed with structures and full scenery by summer 2007. Cheers! ~METRO
Lower level staging, turnouts and connecting track work operational as of 22 Aug 06.
Complete ballasting of staging area and indicator lights for TO’s.
Begin contruction of MoPac yard (Taylor Tx) on upper level.
The immediate goal is to draw the plans and then scratchbuild WP’s 3rd & R St. freight house as it looked in 1950. The building itself is long gone, but I’ve managed to gather enough photos, and one partial set of drawings, to do it credible justice. This will be the centerpiece for my 'round the walls switching layout depicting R street in Sacramento.
The hope is that this project will motivate me into getting up and out of the arm chair. (but it’s so comfy!)[:)]
Tom Campbell
Elk Grove CA
By the end of the year, I would like to try to complete my roundhouse complex (12-stalls), complete the last 24 feet of my classification yard, and lay the last 20 feet of roundy-round track. My 3rd child is due in January, so my time will be well spent elsewhere for a while.
I have a couple of Life-Like GM switchers that I want to convert to CN SW1200RS units, but I still haven’t gotten around to it. Hopefully I’ll get them done before the end of the year.
Put some fine details on Russellville, finish the expantion of Russellville hill, and get my rail yard started. Also wire up my new cab controls.[:)]