Yes Running Trains Again

[ac4400fan]

Hi Guys,Had to Post this tonight.It was the first time in 4 weeks i ran trains again do to the construction on sleepy Valley,It was driving my nuts to see the locos sitting in the staging yard for so long,How many of you been there ?

Pics if you want em?

Carl.

[selector]

Good to be back, eh? How 'bout some pix?

[trainboyH16-44]

Oh, so much....I am always taking out the main in one way or another, like accidentally breaking a bridge while trying to fix a problem, them all my cars just sit in my yard....it's hard, especially when I didn't have a computer

[trainboyH16-44]

Oh, and yes, we do want pics!

[ac4400fan]

here comes a couple

[ac4400fan]

Hers the pics from start to now ,not finished yet thow







There they are!

Carl...

[trainboyH16-44]

That looks pretty good! I like the ballasting job, but here's a little criticsm. After all, sounds like you would be working on it.
A: Paint the track (I usually do this before ballasting)
B: Landscape seems too smooth-more texture.
Hope this is helpful.

[Anonymous]

i was in a similar sitiation for 8 days. i only ordered 1box of cork roadbed and instead of leaving the track alone and running w/ no roadbed i laid what i had which only did half the mainline..i promptly ordered more and got up and running again[:D]in 8 days

[selector]

I think it looks great...just the way it is! Nice ballasting, and if you want to weather it later, it will be a snap.

[ac4400fan]

Hey guys Thanks!4 weeks of work ,but still going on it ,,thanks so much!
Carl..

[Anonymous]

nice pics!

you guys think you have got it tough!!!!try going 3 years with no layout!

pavariangoo

[Anonymous]

Looking good Carl! I too am in the process of painting my track, then I hope to do all the ballasting BEFORE I repopulate my layout with rolling stock - I have a few locos on it for testing purposes, though. I agree it feels good to just sit back and run a train on it once a while, all work + no play = burnout!