I also went with the cork sheet approach, same height as the mainline cork [ATTACH]
December 2014 OK Santa, Ive been bad. I haven't been doing my 15 minutes a day, I haven't run trains recently, but I still do occasional work on...
September musings Well its been a little bit here and a little bit there kind of month. I added more turnouts to Atlanta and Gainesville yards,...
August building Multiple structures were started in August in an attempt to get some scenery in place. Its so much nicer to run trains through...
one pass After just 1 pass over the dual mainlines and the branchline produces a lot of debris, scenery material, ballast and dust. Granted I'm...
July update Starting to run some more ops movements off JMRI. I think more train running is helping to break in the engines and track work a...
Summertime ops The scenery continues toward Lavonia as I-85 goes in under the pair of bridges [ATTACH][ATTACH] I started programming the ops...
May construction May felt a little more like ADD in the basement. Some scenery here, start a new building, work on the bridge, build a new...
April 2014 A little delay due to a big trip to Japan. Talk about railroading, the amount and quality of passenger service was outstanding. It...
Yup, made it down to 8 this winter, not exactly a Montana winter, but I'm used to something higher than the 20's usually.
February update I know winter is model rail time, but its friggin cold in that basement. Running a few trains now and then to keep the dust off...
I'm glad you mentioned the TFRR. I was at the gift shop at the gorge 2-3 years ago and thumbed through a book describing a local railroad set in...
You are correct Al. The branch from Toccoa to Elberton is in the foreground with a mostly double tracked Norfolk Southern mainline running behind...
Year end 2013 A little late with the end of the year update. The railroad got alot bigger this year with the completion of the benchwork and...
I have noticed a good amount of dust collecting on scenery of the older area of the layout, but with all the new construction and more plaster...
I was really impressed with the Traincat loader as well. It may be a little pricey (I think maybe 70-80 bucks), but its etched brass and has many...
September updates Its nice to have some mainline trains running, but the remaining work is almost an attention deficit nightmare. Do a little...
The yard area is the only area where I laid the large cork sheets placed side by side. I used a latex adhesive caulk to adhere it to the plywood...
Power on. Starting to run trains again Solved the power problem (a reversed pair of wires between power districts) and broke out a few engines...
I've got to admit I switched to Micro Engineering c55 six months ago and really like it. It takes a little getting used to forming curves and...
