Some more Scenery....

I was able to spend some more time working on the layout working on scenenry. I built a few trees to try out the ol furnace filter trees. They still need work but I think I am on the right track.

An Island....of scenery

Well here is my first actual scenery for the Redmond Shelf Layout. If you want to see more photos of the scenery island you can check out the Redmond Shelf

Tum-A-Lum Progress

Just a little more progress on my Tum-A-Lum Lumber company.

More photos in the Structures section

New Curve in Place...

I found some operational issues with the curve used as the runaround. Some equipment was having trouble navigating the curve and there was also a twist in the track causing some cars to lift then derail. I replaced he section with a ME 3' section of code 83 track. It is currently just nailed down as I continue to test the track and will secure it here this weekend once testing is done.

Freight Car

As I am in the testing phase of the layout I have been focusing on some other aspect of the shelf layout. One thing I have been working on is weathering cars. So in keeping with the theme here is an SP&S double door boxcar.

B&W a different perspective

I was playing around with some details on my Scenic Diorama and came up with this shot. I still have a lot of detailing to add but I think every little bit gets it one step closer to having the feeling of the real thing.

We have the power....

I completed wiring the track this week on the Redmond Shelf Layout!!!!

The Redmond switcher is setting a string of cars into the Pondersoa Moulding lead leaving the caboose on the mainline.

I was also able to bring a bunch of cars from out of their storage cases and place them on the layout for some operational testing. Goals for this week are to wire 3 toroise switch machines with dual DPDT switches, this should be fun...