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Scenery for Great Eastern Trunk

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Scenery for Great Eastern Trunk
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:34 PM
As I have aquired all of the required track for my layout, I am starting to think of scenery. does anyone have experience of the great eatern trunk layout in an atlas book? I need pictures for inspiration and ideas. Thank you all for your help.
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Posted by TBat55 on Monday, April 25, 2005 6:23 AM
I used the GET plan and substituted Walthers turnouts. Had to cut up every one of them to fit (only the frog angle is the same). I also wish I'd used flex track instead of section track for the triple track part, too many rail joints visible. Last, I moved the yard and turntable to another part of my basement by adding a loop:

schematic

One problem: I need to add a turnout on the outer triple track to get trains on & off from the other direction.



I put a mountain at the other end:




I made the turnouts removable sections








I'm still not sure what to put on the inside of the triple track. A mine won't look right (no tracks to fill cars). Maybe urban; maybe an amusement park. Don't know.

Terry

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 25, 2005 11:27 AM
waka324

Layout looks great!! What make is your bridge?

Larry
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Posted by TBat55 on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:15 AM
Walthers

Terry

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