Well due to circumstances I went from around the walls to now running the plywood central. I call it the South Massey Ry and you can see it here at http://members.cox.net/southmassey here are a few pics of what I have done so far
This is the track plan and the proposed layout of the buildings.
This is the benchwork. made to be portable and as you notice there are 1/2 inch bolts holding the legs, shelf, top frame, and table all together.
Pink Prairie time here. you can see my interhcange yard and the reversing loop.
As it sits now. Just waiting on a few kits to assist where the roads are going to be going before I do some more scenery.
My ‘end of the railroad’ module has been operating bare since 1980. It will get scenery and structures when the rest of the railroad is built out to that point. In the meantime, it gets trains from (and sends trains to) removable cassettes that are stored on shelf brackets underneath it.
The main layout is still perforated plywood (cookie-cut) and the completed levels are intended for hidden layover trackage - as in, “Look, Ma, no scenery (ever.)” I’ll start building scenery and installing structures when the trackwork and signaling system are in and operationally proven.
My scenery exists in my mind. I wonder how much will be lost in translation to reality.
Chuck
I hope to have the ‘plywood central’ running by the end of spring. It will certainly beat the ‘daydream central’ which I have been running for a while.
Heck I have been running the VIRTUAL CENTRAL for 3 years now.[:D]
This is virtual Palmerton.
This helped get the bugs out before we started to build.
3Rd planet image.
I’ve just finished laying the last cork mainline roadbed and am about to start laying the 75 feet of track on it. It has taken me a year to get this far. If I had NEVER laid that ‘test’ track down on the benchwork I’d probably be deep into scenery now. But then I wouldn’t have had all that fun runnin’ trains. So the short answer is I’m still running on the blue plains, but they’re up and down inclines and up and over too.
Jarrell