Thank you, Eric!
To know where you're going, sometimes you have to remember where you've been....
Paul
Very nice! I'll bet it was hard to give it up.
York1 John
It was. And the last 2 years we lived there, I would try to run it every weekend, or as much as possible since a move was imminent.The changes that layout went through:
in the beginning, it looked like a garden railroad superimposed on the backyard. Over time, things grew in, and the railroad looked at home in it's environment. The track changes: this is what I call the " phase 4" trackplan. It is 2 independent loops connecting through a pair of switches. This allows for 2 train operations. It is track powered, and all 1 block.Some engines have a polarity switch which allows me to run the 2 trains in oposite direction. The pictures are from March 2017, near the end of the line.
Also, from 2007 on, I was trying to shift to 1:20.3 scale for accurate 3 foot modeling. This is reflected in my structures, the caboose and skeleton log cars. I still ran the smaller trains on the inner loop.
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