A beginner's layout

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have a very small yard. My son and I run 10 locomotives out of here. His 5 stay in the car shop and engine house when he’s not around. We have full service fueling, car repair engine repair and sanding.
 

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Mopac Junkie said:
have a very small yard. My son and I run 10 locomotives out of here. His 5 stay in the car shop and engine house when he’s not around. We have full service fueling, car repair engine repair and sanding.
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I’m curious how you pull the cars out of the yard?
I love shop scenes and how you have the crane across the tracks!
 


In this area which I’ve started to scenic and ballast is of course where the one track joint that I can’t live with is :mad: No derailments but a very undesirable bump. I finally decided today to rip out the turnout and put it back together better. I’m very happy with the improvement :D

I haven’t done this before. I find a lot of alcohol helps and I’m not just talking about rubbing alcohol 🤣🤣

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PMW said:
In this area which I’ve started to scenic and ballast is of course where the one track joint that I can’t live with is :mad: No derailments but a very undesirable bump. I finally decided today to rip out the turnout and put it back together better. I’m very happy with the improvement :D

I haven’t done this before. I find a lot of alcohol helps and I’m not just talking about rubbing alcohol 🤣🤣

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what is the alcohol of choice?
 
No more work today but I just wanted to explain the purpose of the elevated city scene. Not only does it hide a couple of feet of the mainline it also provides partially hidden staging.

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I will use balsa wood or something to support the foam above and use longer 1”x4”s on the outside to attach a backdrop and still have to model walls for the short sides.

I have a similar setup on the other side of the room but completely visible. This staging runs parallel to the yard and the mainline runs between so I don’t mind. I think it looks cool :)

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One side of the room is north most staging with trains departing southbound and the other side is south most staging with trains departing northbound
 
Won’t be doing much until after the holidays but I did get a chance to work on the layout a bit today.

I was dissatisfied with much of the rail I painted. I’ve never done this before and thought it would look alright after ballasting… nope 😩 I touched up some rail today. So tedious and time consuming but I love the results 😀

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PMW said:
Won’t be doing much until after the holidays but I did get a chance to work on the layout a bit today.

I was dissatisfied with much of the rail I painted. I’ve never done this before and thought it would look alright after ballasting… nope 😩 I touched up some rail today. So tedious and time consuming but I love the results 😀
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What a difference painting rail makes, defiantly worth the effort. You can really see that in the first photo.

You did a great job, looks great!
 


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