Well, its been about a month since I started this thread about my railway, and its been great to see the pics others have chipped in. Once the weather gets to cold for the garden I suspect I might retreat to my hut and have a go at some customisation. Although to be honest once I'm in the hut Scalextric generally takes over. There is always an hour of repairing Rosie the cat induced damage for a start!
I have been running trains most evenings after work, while I get on with the gardening stuff, and generally been trying to improve the usability of the track. Both locos run fine and no real problems with track contact, other than the odd stutter at very low speed over points. FWIW, and I know this is covered in depth in dedicated threads, my track maintenance is a quick fine spray of very dilute soapy water followed by a few laps of the track at a faster speed than I would normally run. I do find I need to rub the points with those Scotchbright green pads quite often, and also the sidings which have much less traffic. But for the most part certainly the main loop is trouble free even at the low speeds I almost always run at. I have added isolators to all the sidings so both my locos can be on the layout, and its now relatively easy to run one loco off and bring the other on (with a wee push at the moment as I have yet to wire in any switches). I also moved the controller to a more practical position where I can reach all the points and the controller at the same time!
I would like to add more people and scenic stuff, because to me they bring the layout to life, but that is going to be a slow process tho, nothing in this game is cheap. Meantime I used an old bird box and a metal 'thing' I dug up a few days ago to make a hut with an industrial machine of some indeterminate sort. And working on a roofed birdfeeder that had rotted at the base, which I'm sure I can turn into an American type covered bridge, or maybe an old abandoned sawmill.
Here are some photos I took yesterday. Not that much different from the original ones I posted at the beginning of the thread, but I have rearranged a few things on the track, and tried snapping some different angles.
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,yes a few German locos made it across the pond so a stainz is not totally out of place IMO and besides you run what you`ve got,
on the other hand some US locos ended up here,USA tanks for example,Bill has posted some pics of his bashes so throw mine in too,(60 quid bargain)and bashed to a US flavour,my first loco was a stainz passenger set,never to be bashed or painted/weathered and still in mint condition as are the cars and in the box under the bed as never used now as when US outline locos came into the stud it just went to the bottom of the stack.
