Many many moons ago, when I lived in California, I visited a train club in Sacramento near where I was attending college.  They told me they ballasted their track by mixing in a powder cement (brand was Weldwood) with the ballast, spreading it to shape, and then wetting it with wet water to activate the cement and holding the ballast in place.

I had a few people really like my first blog post so I decided to go back through my photos and share the construction process of my current layout West Avenue.

Many years ago I bought the book Building City Scenery by John Pryke. Since then I have had a fascination with city street layouts. In 2013 my wife and I decide to move 1500kms interstate and across Bass Straight to Tasmania. I had just parted with my n scale micro and was in need of something to run trains and tinker with.

More progress on the new layout. I have finished the installation of the uprights; added power with several outlets; put in a panel for building lights and accessories to be powered by a separate power pack; put in a panel for track power with most of the elements.

Hi all.

So I have been a bit quiet, because I had a hard time at work the last months (I work in a model train shop in Lisbon, and Christmas is that time of the year that we have a looot of costumers to please...)

Nevertheless, I am building a small display layout, in N scale (as stated in previous blog entries), with MRL rolling stock. I asked my father to help me on building a show case.

Well, that just happened... The show is almost completed, and them I can take it back to my place, and start working on the scenery.