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What colors of paint/wash did you use to get the rock colors?

The mountain behind the Derrick car looks great! Nice weathering on the Derrick car, as well. Are you converting the ravines to tunnels or leaving them as they are?

I’ve been itching to do a On30 (my first) and this is very educational!

Thanks for the tip on the book - it looks like it has a good discussion of how a railroad operates and how to design the layout to accommodate it.

Thanks for the advice. Maybe I’ll go back to my original thought of using all atlas snap track including switches. I like the idea of starting out and not mixing and matching brands.

I was thinking of using the snap track. If I remember correctly (which is iffy), the tru-track is difficult to mix with other types of track.

I’m new to model railroading and would like to build a 8x4 ho layout (now that I’m retired and some time on my hands). I was looking at the atlas snaptrack as a good starting point. Recently I saw another newcomer’s question in this forum regarding atlas turnouts and they seem to be consider not...