Well, things are finally starting to turn green again. For those of you who have never experienced a winter in the Okanagan Valley the world has been kind'a gray and brown and white and wet. Now trains are running, the vegetation is quickly coming to life, and in a short few weeks will it will shrink away again for the long desert summer. Before the track gets to hot to touch I can get some maintenance done... This train is the first "test" eastbound after a very quick cleaning. Surprisingly, little "Rail-Zap" is all it needed and it saved all that bending and scrubbing. A new series of WVRR-2001 photos are at this PhotoPoint address. Enjoy
Sorry 'bout that. I thought there was an address attached to the photo but that was just a blurb. The WVRR-2001 pictures are at... http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1044719&a=12525983&f=0 I'll be replacing the ballast as soon as I know the deer have completed their semi-annual migration through my yard. Then it'll look like a railroad again. Cheers
Nice work Dave, I like your track plan, simple and realistic not the spaghetti type of trackwork you still see on a lot of G scale layouts.
Thanks Paul. Things are running smooth but it won't look real good until next summer. I keep it simple all right. (A) I don't have a lot of room, (B) I'd rather spend my limited resources on "trains", (C) I grew up where a single, lonely track was all I could see for miles around and (D) I hate laying track. All the same excuses applied to my various N Scale layouts. As a matter of fact I'm building an N Scale coffee table layout for our club to raffel off this fall and it's just a "once around and a single spur" design. No cost - no maintenance - lots of scenery. One of these days I'll have room inside. I would like about 1000 sq ft. I've done a plan and it's just once around the room in a "W" shape. That will still capture the "wide open spaces" look. Cheers
