Here's a few more pics a bit closer to some of the structures. Enjoy and thanks again for the feed back.

Banana Plantation, with workers bunk houses and managers residence and office. Switcher tank engine is just under the covering.

Today I spent the day installing the new track work around the south side of the new Hershey Plant.

When I designed the track work for the plant I had an added benefit that it made both the south & north sides of the layout in this area flow a lot smoother and also added another passing siding and storage track.

It's been a while since I've posted an update and just realized it's been over a year now since starting this project.

I want to thank everyone for the tips and suggestions so far, keep them coming.

So for today I'll post some overview pics and hopefully tomorrow a few closer up to the structures.

Hello,

due to my housemove I had to size down my modelrailway. My new railway room is now about 13x10 feet in size, compared to about 13x13 feet in the old house. As mentioned earlier I sold two of my stations to friends. Here I started with the new benchwork for my new model railway layouts. I used Ikea Ivar cupboard system parts and plywood for the construction. Here a video update I made some time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniP3T_PPB4&ytbChannel=WIRED

I think I found my garden railway!

Hello all,

I have a problem with my decoder dcc Esu loksound,
, This is the first time I see this. When I stop the locomotive, it gives a small blow before stopping completely.
I installed a Loksound select microphone and esu powerpack (54670) and a speaker.
If you can see the video on my youtube channel. thank you !

http://youtu.be/D4WNgb9Bths

John Allen's "Timesaver" requires switching know-how to move the cars efficiently within the track constraints.  

The phone ap is a good learning opportunity.   Switching assignments increase in complexity as deliveries are completed.  Ten minutes can quickly elapse as an assignment progresses.   If a modeler has free time waiting for something, "Timesaver" is a nice option, otherwise it's a time waster ! 

I have been wanting to explore what can be done with 48" sections - module style without fixed end connections - or The One Module Approach or TOMA.

Now that I have actually started to create sawdust it is clear that some more forethought would have been benifitial. Not too late though as this is a chainsaw. Some of my concerns may be no big deal but I thought I'd post them here for your imput.