Union Pacific Branch Layout

[AusPete]

Finally starting to make some progress on my HO scale Union Pacific branch layout.
It has been almost 12 months since joining the forum and I am only just starting to get into putting in some serious scenery in the yard / industrial areas.
Will post more as progress continues

This first one is the fuel depot

Small loco servicing shed

and a few in the industrial / yard area

 

[Smudge617]

Finally starting to make some progress on my HO scale Union Pacific branch layout.
It has been almost 12 months since joining the forum and I am only just starting to get into putting in some serious scenery in the yard / industrial areas.
Will post more as progress continues

This first one is the fuel depot

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Small loco servicing shed

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and a few in the industrial / yard area

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Looking good, really nice work you've done here.

 

[Rico]

Looks like a fun plan to operate on!

 

[D&J RailRoad]

Good choice of roads. Authentic looking dust.

 

[migalyto]

That’s really nice! Well done!

 

[logandsawman]

Finally starting to make some progress on my HO scale Union Pacific branch layout.
It has been almost 12 months since joining the forum and I am only just starting to get into putting in some serious scenery in the yard / industrial areas.
Will post more as progress continues

This first one is the fuel depot

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Small loco servicing shed

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and a few in the industrial / yard area

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Looks great, is that painted sheet rock backdrop or what type of material is your light blue backing?

 

[AusPete]

Looks like a fun plan to operate on!

I have hours of fun operating on the layout - that's my major hurdle to getting scenery work done.
Just can't help myself

 

[AusPete]

Looks great, is that painted sheet rock backdrop or what type of material is your light blue backing?

Thanks Dave. The backing sheets are 3mm MDF

 

[AusPete]

Thanks for all the kind words guys.

 

[AusPete]

Finally got the basic ground cover scenery finished in the back corner of the industrial area around the timber retailers
I will add some further ground detailing later with some static grass and a few puddles lying around

Also started planting a few trees around the place

 

[AusPete]

And a few more trees.......At least these ones don't die like the ones in my garden

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Looks great mate - what tree's do you use, they look very good to me and more realistic than most!

The second picture above kinda reminds me of the Spencer Street (Melbourne) Yard - a little bit.

 

[AusPete]

Looks great mate - what tree's do you use, they look very good to me and more realistic than most!

The second picture above kinda reminds me of the Spencer Street (Melbourne) Yard - a little bit.

Bought and made these a long time ago but I'm pretty sure they are Woodland Scenics trees

Any resemblance to Spencer Street must be ingrained memories stuck in my head. It has been a long time since my last visit to Spencer Street
I'll put it down to pure luck

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Any resemblance to Spencer Street must be ingrained memories stuck in my head. It has been a long time since my last visit to Spencer Street
I'll put it down to pure luck

Might be me too as it's been probably 6 or so years since I saw Flinders and Spencer Street. I dunno, your pic just has a Spencer Street feel to it Could be Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth too for all I know

Hmm, they look too good to be woodlands stuff - but if you bought the armatures and made them yourself that would explain it - nice job

 

[AusPete]

Might be me too as it's been probably 6 or so years since I saw Flinders and Spencer Street. I dunno, your pic just has a Spencer Street feel to it Could be Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth too for all I know

Hmm, they look too good to be woodlands stuff - but if you bought the armatures and made them yourself that would explain it - nice job

Thanks Wombat. Yes they were Woodland Scenics armatures and I added the foliage

 

[AusPete]

Starting applying some static grass in a few locations. Mix of 4mm and 6mm and a mix of a few colours together

 

[goscrewyourselves]

Looks great mate!

 

[migalyto]

Very well done!

Like your work station. I need to figure something like that out. I have chaos all over that needs organization!

 

[AusPete]

Very well done!

Like your work station. I need to figure something like that out. I have chaos all over that needs organization!

Hi Mike,
The workstation is actually a set of draws holding my freight cars that are currently not in use and the laptop is used to run a program I've written to schedule the delivery and pickup of cars, schedule maintenances and refuelling of locomotives and to allocate time for the inloading of tank cars and hoppers.

 

[AusPete]

I have decided to bite the bullet and revamp the town scene area of the layout as well as eliminating the need for a helix down to the lower deck staging tracks. My main concern was the ongoing maintenance requirements of the helix and the access restrictions as my age progresses.
This is the area concerned before the redesign.

The newly redesigned area now has the mainline departing over the bridge to run behind the main street of the town, across a removable section across the side door to the garage (which we rarely use) on to the new staging tracks on a shelf on the back wall