What did you do on your layout today?

I worked on the new siding yard, in particular a siding that goes over to the new refinery location. Progress comes sometimes in small steps and this was the case yesterday.

I repaired my Premier F7 rear facing "A" unit's drooping pilot and coupler which I showed on here in a thread a few months ago. Repair was delayed because we were in Florida.   All is well with it now and I am quite pleased with its appearance and operations.  

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Dennis

Hung a pegboard over my work table and started organizing some tools that before had been scattered all over the place. 

Made like a gandy dancer and relaid 45 feet of track.  Hope to finish tonight to make room for more trains. Done with main line but storage tracks to be installed.

Happy Easter!

Al

Thanks to the great photos put up on here by forumites, I have my creosote plant

planned.  I found lighter tubing with thinner walls than PVC for the retorts. But I found

Plasttruct has a minimun order which my retort doors and supports won't reach, so that is on hold.  So only have the base and the retorts cut to shape.  Will have to build a  LARGE corrugated building for the retorts, and find that none of the structure kits I

have is suitable for the separate office building.  It looks like a lot of scale wood will be needed for the piles of before and after ties and poles.  Also will have to track down at least four captive flat cars to run into the retorts...so....this won't happen fast.  And the company is in a tizzy, for the loggers are cashing their checks, the sawyers have been cutting ties,  loaded log cars are clogging up the sidings, money is going out, and none is coming in.

 

Replaced a curve switch.

Tested my most quirky engine over it.

Hosted Gilly@N&W so he could test out his Weaver N&W Pacific.

 

Peter

Trees, trees, trees, trees!

Gilly@N&W,

Nice track plan. I also like a double track mainline for watching trains run. It looks like you have a pretty lengthly run there. I also like your reverse loop and the fact that you put a reversing wye in your plan.

 

Cobrabob.

Got 1/2 the foam glued down, then ran trains through my 1024 switches. Those old girls are smooth as silk. Gots to look into some 1121 remote versions.

Got my test track up and running with Legacy control.  Spent the past week just running my traditional stuff on the O84 circle and was entertained enough by that.  I wish O96 was available in FasTrack.

The UP Centipede is going to make its debut tomorrow.

 

David

Saturday... I was bad today didn't do anything on the train display, just to nice outside. Rain for tomorrow so hopefully I will get some more work done .deadline now 19 days away

Clem 

I made some Truss supports for my elevated track I will soon be adding (I hope).  I used basswood for some of the supports, but then later switched to birchwood which I cut with a jigsaw.  I then glued pieces of styrene for the beams and details, spray painted them flat black, and then added rust and weathering.

 

 

 

 

I took up all the track, pulled the wiring and said goodbye to my layout.

adjusted the outer loop of fastrack and put in the inner loop of fastrack O31.

 

trains run very well on the new O31

 

i was mixing fastrack with realtrax and finally decided the realtrax had to go.

 

glad i made the decision on the realtrax.the layout is 100% fastrack now.

 

terry............

I just finished the final details of my micro layout contest entry. Now I get to wait until after the kids do thier thing tomorrow morning to take pics and learn how to post them.

I must say this is my favorite thread on the forum.

I finished the front girders and the joists through the corners on my benchwork.

A couple of weeks have gone by since I posted to this topic. A lot has been done.

March 16




March 29




All of the roadbed is down and ready for track and the backdrop is up, ready for paint.

We installed MTH grade crossing flashers as well as a set of Lionel crossing gates.  

Finished weathering and installed my first structure - REA transfer station flat.

 Started final shaping of track side and ballasting track. 19 more days to open house

Nothing - absolutely nothing.  Just took the day off from everything I normally do.  Sort of nice.

My 5 year old grandson ran conventional, DCS, and Legacy for his 91 year old Great Grandfather. It was a wonderful Easter for everyone here! 

took a break, went to the PA trolley museum in washington, PA to ride some trolleys! take some sneek peaks at the new projects they are doing, restoration, etc.  a fun time for all. 

Started to wire tracks in the new switch yard, tracks 12, 13 & 14. Also wired the switches that control these sidings.

Ran trains with the kids last night.  Purchased a few buildings for the layout and looking at a good way to make my country road though the town.  

Laid more track on the helix. The helix should be done on Thursday or Friday. Gets a little tedious going up and down the ladder, even if it is only two steps.

RAN my new Lionel Legacy GS2 SP Daylight!  WOW, what an Engine. It is fantastic to say the least! The Colors, Operation and Sound.  A very good Smoker as well!  Even on the LOW Setting

 

Fredstrains

Started to tear apart my Atlas 0-6-0 for a re-paint and re-letter to Michigan and Great Lakes 110.  Going to just have the herald on each side of the tender for this re-paint.  

 

It will also get a Kadee conversion.

 

Will post photos of my progress.  

Well I just ordered $160.00  from brennan's model railroading. I ordered some better ballast. I got some gray and rail yard black. And I ordered 2 bags of  each of there scenic supplys . I know that I'll get every thing I need  it will just take time and warmer weather. I'm just not used to being on a fixed income like I'm on. Plush things have got a little bit harder for me to do since I lost my right leg.So just give me some time and I will get this layout up and running.

 

Good Morning

Yesterday did more ballast and scenery,I do some scenery and ballast at the same time while I'm spraying glue over everything, some places are hard to reach. Today will be more of the same. Still have an industrial area to build and a town expansion. 17 days until Blissfield Railroad Days.

Over the past month, I've finished the bench work for the first level of the Milwaukee Beer Line and put down some track to make sure my track plan actually worked. After a few tweaks, it does. I have two bridges (bascule and lift) that cross the Milwaukee River, but before I could permanently mount and wire them up, I've had to do the river scenery first. I'm pretty much done with that and hope to pour the "water" today and then start on the wiring. With a little bit of luck, I'll have some trains running by the weekend: I've got some thirsty customers. 

Received my Twin Pines Dairy truck today and looked at moving some of the buildings around to accommodate a new Barber Shop building from Alex Mailliae.  

Well, the helix is finally topped out, and the first 3 sections of bookshelf benchwork are in place. Tomorrow I hope to finish the track all the way up, and perhaps put in the bridge over the aisle.

 

Today I cleaned the bedroom that surrounds my "layout."

Nothing, absolutely nothing!!!  A conspiracy between people who actually expect me to do something for my paycheck, and my dentist, kept me from even seeing the train-room today!

Ready to put some track down.

I don't have the end caps and other parts I need for the retorts, so the creosote plant
is on hold.  Yesterday and today I have reverted to working on the previously  started ghost town kit.  I have cut walls for the general store out of milled clapboard, installed
Grandtline windows and some doors, and a bent and sagging ridgepole. With the four walls assembled, I am now starting to install broken rafters where they will show through the holes in the roof.  Have done the porch floor with its holes and sag.  Have been thinking up names to put on the barely hanging sign, and think I will just put in the foundation of the station, with a vestige of a platform that flagged trains can stop at, the building just the pit full of scrap lumber.  A very decrepit saloon and roofless blacksmith shop should complete the scene and indicate that residents have left for the next bonanza.

Worked on my roundhouse for a little while.

The only thing I did was put on Twin Pines Dairy DIVCO truck on the layout to make a ice cream and milk delivery to the ice cream parlor.  

 

I also ran trains!

Very frustrating day. I worked on two switches to get the controllers to function properly. It did not happen, but after some time, I did narrowed the problem down to the wire that connects the switch to the controller. I hope to fix the issue today so that I can get on to finishing the wiring of the yard and the rest of the switches.

 

It is a good thing that most trains days are better than this one.