Reaching Mancave status. . .
Here's the layout room (click on photo for full-sized view). Plop down for a little telly, or grab a throttle and work the "Yo-yo shunter" at Narrabri West. . .
.
Excuse the poor photoshop job here, folks, but I wanted to at least share a panorama of the layout space before I drop off to sleep. It's been a good weekend of work on the layout--I finished the trackwork in Wee Waa and wired that up, tuned up a couple of stubborn points and point mechanisms, cleaned up the workbench and layout room (both really needed it!) and started to put together some train consists for next week's operating session.
So, here's the layout as it exists tonight--no scenery yet, but rolling stock and trackwork and lights and backboards and for the rest of the family, a couch and flatscreen. And, hope you catch that Australian flag. Not sure what'll be on the telly the night we operate. . .a fast clock or Kath and Kim?
All for now. Gotta work in the morning. Rules test, which is a bit of a crock to have it last all day since all but the last hour of it is review and the damned thing's "open book" anyway! Maybe tomorrow I'll get around to vacuuming the dust and accumulated little bits of debris off the layout, and put some quick and temporary wiring on the lower level trackage so we can use that as well.
One man's attempt to create a little bit of the Australian bush in a Texas bonus room.
Posted originally: 2010-01-23 06:13:00
Here's the layout room (click on photo for full-sized view). Plop down for a little telly, or grab a throttle and work the "Yo-yo shunter" at Narrabri West. . .
.
Excuse the poor photoshop job here, folks, but I wanted to at least share a panorama of the layout space before I drop off to sleep. It's been a good weekend of work on the layout--I finished the trackwork in Wee Waa and wired that up, tuned up a couple of stubborn points and point mechanisms, cleaned up the workbench and layout room (both really needed it!) and started to put together some train consists for next week's operating session.
So, here's the layout as it exists tonight--no scenery yet, but rolling stock and trackwork and lights and backboards and for the rest of the family, a couch and flatscreen. And, hope you catch that Australian flag. Not sure what'll be on the telly the night we operate. . .a fast clock or Kath and Kim?
All for now. Gotta work in the morning. Rules test, which is a bit of a crock to have it last all day since all but the last hour of it is review and the damned thing's "open book" anyway! Maybe tomorrow I'll get around to vacuuming the dust and accumulated little bits of debris off the layout, and put some quick and temporary wiring on the lower level trackage so we can use that as well.
Posted originally: 2010-01-23 06:13:00