Model Train Journal

After a few weeks of work, I was able to get the old layout down & start on another new one. I built this new, smaller one in our office room. I tried to make it a fun layout for the kids. Below are the first pics of the new setup. Shelves will go in under the board once I'm done w/ the wiring down there. One cool thing about this layout, is my son picked out every accessory that I put on it.













AFter a few days of running them & thinking about the track plan, I made a few changes to the track plan. Moved the town to the center of the layout & decided to add an upper level. The crane will wind up on a spur off the upper track. I felt the 2 tracks & all accessories on the lower level was too cluttered. This gives a little more room for scenery & opens things up a bit more.








Last week we had a rare snow storm & I went out & caught CSX ES44DC 5395 leads Q581 through Waxhaw, NC on the Monroe Sub


NS Dash-9 9723 rests outside the ex PRR Juniata Shops in Altoona, PA


NS Dash-9 9264 leads 18M through Ada, WV on a chilly Fall morning


A pair of BNSF GE motors leads NS 210 into downtown Atlanta


CSX AC44CW 10 leads a Chattanooga bound grain train on the Western & Atlantic Subdivision in Dalton, GA

So is this fun layout a replacement for the prior iteration, or is that yet to be built? This one looks like fun...always liked the "U" configuration.

Healey

It's a replacement for the Hi Rail one. We are expecting in the Spring, so we needed the spare bedroom back. I'm going to do this one w/ nice scenery but using postwar & MPC era trains/accessories. Kind of like out of a Lionel 50's catalog

Congratulations, mate...wonderful.

Healey

Thanks! Hope this one is the last lol

The "other" railroad in Dalton, GA:

christopher2035 wrote:Thanks! Hope this one is the last lol

cheaper by the dozen!

A couple of trains on the CN (GTW) Shoreline Sub in Detroit today

CN E280



CN M383



CN Q116

Nice shots Lucas !

Bridge piers in the process of being painted.



George

christopher2035 wrote:Nice shots Lucas !

Thanks!