Yes, you read that right. I took a hammer to the track, removing all of it, and i took a powersaw to the table, ripping it in 3rds. Why the insanity? I decided that the circle just wasn't going to cut it so I've been working on a new layout for the past 2 weeks, (i work 13 hour days so it's hard) but I'll be posting the first pics of it today for commenting I'm really excited, the new layout has branchs, siddings, industry and I am working to get a compressed model of the big bend in the deerfield river and hoosaic tunnel modeled. It's still fantasy modeling though (because of the room, the deer field has to bend the wrong way)
and as promised: http://www.gregslens.com/15.jpg In this frame we have the mainline approaching an as yet unbuilt switch. This switch will send the main line left and right. Left will go up into a town and the right will go along the deerfield river before dropping into north adams. The pure EZ track siding is the Central freight intermodal complex. The sidding mixed with sectional and ez track is an autorack complex. The passenger station is lined up with the last block of the subdivision and protected by the PRR signal I wired. (you can see the color coded controls for the signalman) http://www.gregslens.com/16.jpg The east end of the subdivision features the lead track for the Pope's Creek sub model and an expansion track. The east end also features the long spur to the Worton Timber yard. The randomly isolated track is a light rail serving the planned community of Anderson. Trains run every 10 minutes between the housing, shopping center (in this town, the rails are main street), Amtrak JCT station, and the jobs. -New Additions- http://www.gregslens.com/tree1.jpg http://www.gregslens.com/tree2.jpg My first experiment with scenery worked well. The texture of oil paint seems to work well for asphalt. The trees came in a box of 100 for 15 dollars. The siding is a 5-6 car siding, USRR does not cut cars on this siding, trains come in empty and go out full. http://www.gregslens.com/tree1.jpg
(For those of you who don't know, USRR is United States Federal Railroad, the Govt Corp that runs all train service in America (though Amtrak is allowed to operate as it's own division and use it's own name and logo, USRR has no logo or painted equipment)