Who says big steam can't do some switching as well?

I'm sure that if the UP guys who make the budget ever saw this they would cringe, but oh well lol!

WyCo Western rural switching branch. It needs a name I think...

I'm open for suggestions, but for now here are a few pics:

 

The HO layout is home and running!

The HO scale branch of the WyCo Western Railway is home and in place! There are a few buildings on it temporarily and the scenery will start going in soon! I will be starting to ballast the main line and such tonight and will post pics later. I have decided that since HO is a LOT more forgiving when it comes to scenic mistakes, I will practice on the HO layout and then finish the N scale side.

Trackwork is complete and the wiring works well!

So tonight I will be going over to Bob's and bringing the layout home. I will be working on ballast over the next few days and then it will be on to dirt, grasses, and other such scenic improvements. This is going to be fun! Here is a pic of the completed track all nice and cleaned off.

Cork completed and trackwork 99% complete as well!

The cork has been placed and the track work is almost done! We have one more siding track to finish and then it's on to ballast and scenery! I will be going over to Bob's in a few hours to finish the track, fix up the wiring, and test it all! Here are a few pictures of the progress thus far:

I will post more updates later and hopefully with a video or at least pics of a loco operating on it!

HO Layout Progress

As promised, here are a few pics of the progress I have made on my HO scale switching layout. I had to get a few pieces of cork roadbed today to finish it due to the fact that we have added a pair of switches to lead into a few more tracks that will run along either side of a CO-OP. Bob (my neighbor who is helping me) had a few things to do this evening so we are going to be finishing up the cork and working on laying track tomorrow. With any luck, the track work will go a lot smoother than the cork went. There were a few bumps along the way, but that was due to the fact that we changed the plan a bit and the modifications were made as we went. Here are the pics:

New layout construction has begun

My neighbor and I have started work on my new HO scale layout. We are using the benchwork that was once his Union Pacific Greeley Sub and so far we have benchwork done and some cork roadbed laid. We will pick it up again tomorrow and hopefully if we can keep up the level of progress, we should have a good bit of track laid as well as the cork finished. When the track work is all done and electronics installed (at least for the track wiring), the layout will be moved to my house and set up in the train room. Instead of the "roundy round" layout I wanted, this one is purely switching. It will measure 28" x 10'7" and is a modified version of this plan:

It will have much different scenery from what is seen in this plan. I will have a CO-OP with grain elevators in the lower left corner, and some other rural industries scattered throughout the layout with a lot of the ground cover being dirt or Wyoming plains colors. I will get pics of the progress tomorrow afternoon.