New home for Flynn and some ballasting
Finally we have moved into the new house and I have moved enough of the boxes from the garage to start playing trains again. I plan to have a larger permanent layout in addition to the steel terminal, so my first job was to build part of the new frame work, which would allow me to rest ‘Flynn Steel’ on it while I work on it over the winter.
Having now accepted that I won’t be adding a Traverser to my layout following my earlier ‘cock up’, I emailed Hugh asked him some amended plans which removed the traverser from the track plan and put the area it occupied to better use.
I thought I would give ballasting a bash as I have never attempted it before. Now I have to say that I am pretty happy with how it went, once I got passed a couple initial hurdles. Rather than use 00 Gauge ballast, I used N Gauge fine ballast and I have to say I think it looks quite realistic.
When I was laying the track I decided to lay it on 3mm cork that was slightly wider than the sleepers themselves. The result is the track looks like it is ’sitting up’ on a bed of ballast.
Once I have an amended track plan I expect i will be relaying some track and wiring in some new point work. A backboard/backscene is also needed at some point too.
