I have been trying to squeeze in a good sized layout build while working full time and it never seemed as though I would ever see a train run. I even got a battery R/C unit just for a quick fix.
Then seemingly in a quick flurry of activities most of the branch lines were up and running and then it happened. it seems like all I do is run trains. The display cabinets were emptied, hidden purchases were drawn out from obscure caverns.
Lights, sounds, smoke, movement---this creation is ALIVE! Containers of Hydrocal, trees, ground cover, tunnel portals etc. lie invisible in plain sight. Now the interest is seeing how many trains can run while passing the baton at branch line dead ends and spinning locos on various TTs.
OK, a couple of confessions, there were a few derailments at closed points and almost two cornfield meets and a passenger train tried to over take a slow freight on a single track line W/O sidings. Ouch!
One of these days or months I may return to actually working on covering the plywood but as my wife and I are in the middle of drawing up our wills and making finial arrangements for whenever that day arrives I have no immediate plans for scenery.
Excuse me I have some trains to run.
