My new layout space is about ready for a railroad.  I will be modeling in HO.  Right now I'm thinking of an around-the-walls with a peninsula.  I'm interested in the Arkansas & Missouri in NW Arkansas and SW Missouri.  MoPac in Arkansas in the late 70's.  Also the  D&RGW Pueblo-to-Red Cliff, Colorado thru Royal Gorge, Leadville, and Tennessee Pass tunnel before being acquired by UP.  

I'll post a drawing of my space in the next post.

David

Phase One:

My latest kit bashed structure project pictured below is the "Holland Furnace Co." which will be located in the Ashland, WI Industrial area on my CNW - Peninsula Div HO scale RR.

The temperature outside has been a daytime high of -25 for the last 30 days, so I have been inside spending a fair bit of time working on my layout.

Fully Tested the final leg of staging trackage today.

Tested 6 ways from Sunday... pulled up, pushed down, pushed up, pulled down, slow & fast.

A few cars needed some tweaking, but after that, no more derailments - YAY

Staging and hidden trackage: APPROVED!

Hello,

yesterday and today I started with the construction of the landscape at the station throat end at my Ullapool

Watch for detail slide by slide and video of this section of the Grande Pacific Model RR.  Flat Irons on the GP.

I currently have a proto 2000 switcher sw9/1200 and I am in need of some parts. However I am coming up short as I cant find anywhere that stocks them here in Australia.

I have tried walthers themselves but they seem to not stock parts either. If I am able to replace the worm and drive shafts with other branded parts I will happily do so.

Nick.

This layout is great example space utlization for operations. At each town the front and back are totally different worlds.

Ive finally got all the benchwork in place and all the track laid. The latest post on my blog shows the progress.