Welcome to a US holiday version of WPF.
I COMPLETELY redid my main and my passing siding(down to the sub roadbed even). I was able to double the lengty of the siding, and both are no longer hanging in the air.
My 3D sheetz gas station is SLOWLY coming along as well.
Looks Awesome Jimmy!
Keep up the good work and good luck with the 3D Sheetz gas station!
On the way back from hospital I called into my local model shop.
Purchased two 0.6.0 locomotives. Lovely runners as the owner showed me on his test track.
Photographs to be taken, then into the workshops for a repaint. Names to be chosen and nameplates to be purchased. One will be definitely named ‘Lady Victoria’. The other will possibly named Lady Adelaide or Lady Caroline. (My little locomotives are named after members of my family) Decisions. Decisions.
Jimmy, Thanks for starting up the WPF with lots-o layout construction, like the interior weathering on those hoppers.
Hi David, which model shop is your local one, please?
I am might be venturing into Newcastle-upon-Tyne when I have my car serviced.
Paul.
Thanks for starting another WPF, Jimmy.
A while back I put in a short streetcar line that runs automatically back and forth from one end of the layout to the other. On one end, I had finished the stop, but this week I finished the stop at the other end:
South end of line with dead Big Foot in the road:
North end of line:
Lots of things to add to scenes, but it will eventually be all finished.
The two new locomotives purchased today
A London, Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive. It is similar to a Barton Class locomotive of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. It runs beautifully. Now in the workshops for a repaint and named
Second locomotive is a Midland Railway 3F Class. Often seen around Leeds. Another lovely runner.
David, Those look amazing!
Thank you, Gabe.
One will be named Lady Victoria and the other Lady Adelaide. Family names of our family at the turn of the century (1900 that is).
Pooley’s Puffers on Team Valley Trading Estate. He is open Thursday, Friday & Saturday only.
I’ve been there a few of times, when I used to model British Railways.
Dave always sold used Peco Streamline at good prices and they are usually at MR Exhibitions.
Pooleys Puffers, got me my first two Walthers Cornerstone kits.
They are a bit off my beaten track, but we like seeing the ‘Angel of the North’, as well.
Mostly I use J&J Models in Morpeth for my modeling bits and pieces.
The added attraction is JD Weatherspoon, which is ‘on the way there’.
Paul.
I shifted the era on the layout yesterday, so it’s now 1976. This is what you might find on the railroads during the years leading up to the U.S. bicentennial:
DFF
