Packers_1's blog

Here's what I've been up to the past few weeks:

roundy-rounder moutain layout:

It's been a while. So long, in fact, that I've changed my modeling location (South Carolina-Indiana-Southern Pewnnsylvania), and I've changed the size as well. Well, now my layout is a planned 6x6 (I'll see what's left for staging) and it is set in 1981 in Southern Pennsylvania on the fictionious Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Northern, a class 1 RR running in Maryland and all the states north of it. Here's the plan:

Here's the logo:

Another fresh plan. a little more dbl. track, and re-did its orienetation. added a four stall engine house, made the yard lead longer, and connected it to the turntable. eliminated roundhouse, added a pocket for the roadswitcher on the wayfrieght, and added some tracks for a car shop.

Here's my roster.

Atlas GP9:

Atlas GP30:

Atlas H-15-44:

Group photos:

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

I'm gouing to be building a dbl. decker layout. tHe two levels aren't connected, however, and only interact once.

I cleaned up the levels. The bottom now has the industrial sidings all pointed the same way. The top has been completly dbl. tracked now. I cleaned up Darkwater (only 4 spurs, 5 industries [one serves a co-op transfer and farm supply house]).

upper level:

Boy oh boy, has a lot of stuff happened on the SEC.

Here's my progress on the SEC. I gotta get more track (getting it today).

Almost finished hill.

 Matience structures on turntable

 loco servicing.

Well, its my first blog post, and I figure I should talk about my layout. My parents rejected my big plan, so now I'm using my 4x8 in a new, better, layout. I got my yard laid and a sharp curve, and I gotta get more flextrack. Building two hills as well. The layout is freelanced, and I'm calling it the SEC (Southeastern continental Rwy.). I'll build a through staging yard at one end. Pictures: