Monday, May 25, 2020

Some additional progress on Fuhgeddaboudit Yard.  Finished laying tracks in the locomotive servicing area along with weathering and installing the bases of three of the yard's servicing areas - ash pit, coal tipple and diesel servicing.

In a major brain dead senior moment I misplaced and cannot find the base for the two bay car shop.  Sheet styrene will be used to replace it.

Built an ascending / descending ramp for the coal delivery to the tipple using Woodland Scenics preformed 2% incline / decline set and 1/2" riser set along with plaster cloth.  Using the Woodland Scenics products was a lot easier than scratch building plus I have enough left over for two additional incline / decline areas.

Next is the power distribution for the four locomotive servicing tracks.  I will be using the switches in the turnout motors to turn power on only to the track designated by the yard master.

A few snapshots below of the locomotive servicing area.  Any structures you see are from Dick Wegner's finely detailed layout.

Overall view of the yard.  Loco servicing on left and classification yard on right.

Locomotive servicing area

Yup, lousy job in Photoshop covering up the junk behind the layout in the photo above.

Since turnout motors are back ordered I plan to start work adding two 8 feet long x 2 feet wide sections to lengthen the mainline, add sidings for the coal mine and a bridge over what will be a canal.







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