I have built a starter layout using all of my available track to create a single line mainline. Next comes ballast to give it a more finished look and I need to construct an 8 foot long bridge which can be removed to get a tractor/backhoe in in case we need to pump the septic tank.
I tried to build the layout in my front yard but it would have required changing the appearance of same too drastically so I opted for the flatter area over the septic tank.
Tixeno Short Line is a working name but not the final one I hope...it is based on the fact that there is 'no exit' until I can get appropriately sized turnouts for my Bachman 4-6-0 steam engines.
I get a real kick out of the novel names that folks come up with for their layouts and have been hardpressed to be as creative. I live in the Central Sierra above Sonora, CA and the well modeled West Side and Cherry Valley remnants is only a couple of ridges south of me...Sierra RR runs into Sonora. I have Ponderosa and Sugar Pine next to where I'm building my layout as well as Manzanita, Black Oak, White Oak and a couple of Digger Pines so there is lots of local stuff to work into a layout name but it just won't come to me. For industries I have logging, mining, apples, and tourism and, from what I read in the local paper, marijauna.
In other words, I'm open to suggestions.
I tried to build the layout in my front yard but it would have required changing the appearance of same too drastically so I opted for the flatter area over the septic tank.
Tixeno Short Line is a working name but not the final one I hope...it is based on the fact that there is 'no exit' until I can get appropriately sized turnouts for my Bachman 4-6-0 steam engines.
I get a real kick out of the novel names that folks come up with for their layouts and have been hardpressed to be as creative. I live in the Central Sierra above Sonora, CA and the well modeled West Side and Cherry Valley remnants is only a couple of ridges south of me...Sierra RR runs into Sonora. I have Ponderosa and Sugar Pine next to where I'm building my layout as well as Manzanita, Black Oak, White Oak and a couple of Digger Pines so there is lots of local stuff to work into a layout name but it just won't come to me. For industries I have logging, mining, apples, and tourism and, from what I read in the local paper, marijauna.
In other words, I'm open to suggestions.