Not only is another month in the books, but an entire year has passed since I started this topic.
Let's start with December's progress. Patrick and I started by adding the curved flyover.
The second deck plywood advances around the east end.
Layout lights are powered up, now we can see when we are working.
The continued to move up the peninsula. We are now within 30' of connecting up to the old section. The plan is to build a hump yard there, but I'm not sure if I want to sacrifice smooth operation and potential coupler damage to do it.
Patrick is nearly done sanding and priming the backdrop. We'll start the new year off with a lot of blue paint.
We installed a work light under one section of the layout. We'll be adding 2 more banks under different sections in the near future.
We built some shelves under the workbench, which pretty much completes that project.
Next week will mark the one year anniversary of Patrick helping me. It would have been impossible for me to accomplish all of this by myself. While this topic has a lot of the photos of what was done in 2013, even more can be found over on "What did you do on your layout today?"
Here's a list of the major projects we tackled this year:
- A new helix
- 150' of backdrop
- Lower level plywood completed
- Upper level plywood 75% complete
- Layout lighting 50% complete
- New power supply ready for activation
- New workbench
- Drop ceiling
- Plus a whole lot of smaller projects
I also want to thank Matt, who joined my crew late in the season, but in that short time has been very helpful laying track and wiring. I look forward to seeing what the 3 of us can accomplish in 2014.
Finally, here's a little video I shot a few weeks ago.
Happy New Year!
