Rail laid and glued, terminal wires in place and channels cut to hide them. Scene temporarily attached to layout and powered and tested. All track and turnouts working great, no shorts or dead spots. Engine easily pulls/pushes cars in/out of the intermodal yard from the mainline. Next step, laying rails for overhead gantry crane and building concrete pads.

After a few days of "trial and error" I have decided on a final design for the Intermodal Yard on my layout, The Trenton Subdivision in N scale.

I decided to keep to the basics to create a modest intermodal area capable of both container and trailer operations without taking over the entire layout. I used AnyRail 6 to design the schematic.

Comments/suggestions wanted. Taking advantage of some "free" time over the holidays, I have roughed in the area that I planned for an Intermodal Yard on my layout. I have several trailer units that I have custom built with various Canadian transport companies. I take a photo of the prototype, then crop out everything except the trailer side.

I have finished custom building the third of four N Scale Kato F40PH engines to VIA Rail colours.

This engine is in the later Large Flag scheme.

Today was spent researching, deciding a road number and applying decals to VIA RAIL F40PH-2.

With yesterdays ice storm I was able to install the decoder and gloss coat the shell of the VIA Rail F40PH-2 in N Scale, in the early small Canadian Flag scheme.

I airbrushed several very light coats of Humbrol Clear Gloss Varnish on the Kato shell in preparation for applying decals.

Update on my Work-In-Progress, VIA Rail F40PH-2 in N Scale, in the early small Canadian Flag scheme. 

Today I was able to complete several stages including masking and airbrushing the black areas of the roof, nose and bottom of the Kato shell.

This is my next Work-In-Progress, VIA Rails F40PH-2. A natural progression after completing the VIA Rail Home Hardware version.