mike8693
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It has been forever since I have been on. I have made a little progress. About three months ago I tore down my old layout.Since then I have got my bench work done and most of my foam carved and base colors on. It is 8 by 10 with my workbench in the middle but due to space limitations you only see two sides but it saves me 1/2 the cost.
It will look good though having a train disappear for a while before reappearing.
Most of the modelers and clubs have layouts that are 20 years of work and such a spider web of controls and switches it take years before you could even get a train to move and have no idea about dcc so the layout is simple since it is just me. It has 3 connected loops, an upper loop on the foam to be like a mountain route that will be mostly unseen when I get my trees up. There are two lower loops for my passenger trains.
I know the tunnel looks like crap but I'm going to put a retaining wall on it and a siding and factory backing up to it and it should look good. There will be a few more sidings with factories, passings, crossovers and a station/town. It is set in 60's Pennsylvania but due to budget restraints I am going more for realistic looking in my price range more than historical accuracy. I have had two other layouts but one was when I was 8 and the other I built in a week so this is my first attempt at a real layout. Its not great but its a start. It looks alot better in the pics but I have overhead fluorescents so its either tons of glare or dark pics.
It will look good though having a train disappear for a while before reappearing.Most of the modelers and clubs have layouts that are 20 years of work and such a spider web of controls and switches it take years before you could even get a train to move and have no idea about dcc so the layout is simple since it is just me. It has 3 connected loops, an upper loop on the foam to be like a mountain route that will be mostly unseen when I get my trees up. There are two lower loops for my passenger trains.
I know the tunnel looks like crap but I'm going to put a retaining wall on it and a siding and factory backing up to it and it should look good. There will be a few more sidings with factories, passings, crossovers and a station/town. It is set in 60's Pennsylvania but due to budget restraints I am going more for realistic looking in my price range more than historical accuracy. I have had two other layouts but one was when I was 8 and the other I built in a week so this is my first attempt at a real layout. Its not great but its a start. It looks alot better in the pics but I have overhead fluorescents so its either tons of glare or dark pics.
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