Hello,

last weekend I held a farewell operating session on my layout. The time period for the session was set to 1989. During the session I took some video footage. The result is shown here.

Enjoy the video.

Markus

This is the current track plan.

the two corner modules contain all the switches and the majority of the industry and I shall concentrate on them first.

I plan to make all the turnouts before getting started laying track.

My first switch, a left hand No 6.

I have another detailed blog posting here - giving an overview of my steam locomotive weathering techniques, and my designs for card-sorting shelves in (on?  under?  near?) the benchwork.  Enjoy!

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2018/07/more-weathering-shelving-for-op-sessons.html

A couple photos here, lots more in the blog post.

I noticed that the straightline speed curve that is stock on Tsunami2/Econami decoders is not the most optimized for low speed settings with Genesis/RTR Athearn locomotives. After using the "Switching Speed" function in the Tsunami2, I felt the decoder was more capable of finer low speed control then was initially available OOTB. The trick wasn't to use the 3 point speed curve, but to enable the 28 point speed table and shift the mid values closer to the top of the speed curve making a shallow curve on the low end and a sharper curve towards the top speeds.

So, we are all moved in. My son went camping with his mother. My fiance went to Portland with her daughter and mother. So, I was all alone and finally had the time to get my shelf layout back up and dialed in. I was going to build a room in the garage to house it, I still may. But for now, this is a perfect space for me and my shelf layout. 

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Since I've subscribed to MRH and have been reading the issues and the blogs, I now find myself itching to start building a layout using TOMA's or some such sectional modules. I know what I want to model and the approximate era. Now I need to pick a scale, equipment, track, and structures.