Sunday, June 27, 2010

Staging Completed and Ready for Wiring

Here's the east end all done. Magnetic bridges will be installed to run across the aisle.
These are the ends of the locomotive staging tracks. Since I run DC, I split each track into four blocks. The caulking hasn't dried yet on the track to the right. You can see the couple height gauge on the track. A great place to put it.
The two mainlines are on the left, and the track at the far right is the runaround track.

Even though none of the tracks are wired yet, I couldn't resist lining up a couple trains.

Now I gotta order the wire and plexiglas for the control panel. Then it'll be on to Toluca.


Monday, June 14, 2010

Eastbound Staging Complete

Finally got some GP30's for local service. They need a lot of modifying to represent their 90's versions. Can't wait to wire up the yard and do some switching with these.

The entire yard. The locomotives at the upper left is where the other ladder is, and the lower right shows the switch for eastbound staging.

6 of the 9 tracks laid to next curves.

Here's the completed eastbound staging.

Should be able to complete the westbound staging and mains (if I don't run out of track) next weekend.