April Layout Party

[Tom]

   

And so it starts. Today, Alicia and I went down to the garage and started the long, slow, arduous task of putting the layout back together and cleaning, detailing, and re-modeling it. LOTS of new plans in the works, lots of money spent already, lots more TO spend, TONS of work, but the largest projects start with a first shovel, so today was it. We uncrated the 4 main pieces two weeks ago before I left for Texas, and today, I installed all of the filler pieces of track between modules and leveled all of the legs and bolted the sections together while Alicia vacuumed, dusted and cleaned the grounds and track. We ran out of steam before running the first test train. I figure of a trip of SD40-2's (I haven't got to run them yet since they were built and though larger than the normal power I intend to run on the small railroad). I figure of the three big units and 5 60' Genesis High Cubes and 4 loaded 89' pig flats will run the layout without issues, anything I do intend to run would be good to go. I have a big military motor vehicles event tomorrow with some friends WWII Jeeps but Sunday is another layout work day. Afterall, BB&G 100119 is sitting at the interchange and I need to get to cracken so I can get some photos here and at the brothers layout and send the car on to the next lucky recipient.

My fleet of WP Road power is ready to rock:

   

I'll start a new thread to document reconstruction. LOTS of changes and improvements in the works.