Category Archives: Track Work

Today I soldered all the feeder drops onto the rails and turnout frogs and then hooked them all up. I realized that since the layout was just on saw horses and there was no scenery yet, I could stand it … Continue reading →

After doing some work on the house (and messing up my back, twice) I’m finally able to do some track laying! I soldered the joints and glued the track down with white glue in five sections.

Well, I haven’t made a build update for a long time. And there is a reason for that. My hand built turnouts are giving me troubles and I got disgusted and stopped working on the layout. If you read my … Continue reading →

On Friday and Sunday I put down some ballast on the track on the Northeast end of the layout.

In the last installment about Lutgens Creek I had created the creek bed and painted it tan. The next step was to paint the bottom of the creek bed a darker color and then shade the sides a little. I … Continue reading →

I spent some time trying to determine the best way to throw the turnouts on my layout, as you can see in this blog post. After I determined that I was going to use the BullFrog turnout controls I ordered … Continue reading →

I’ve been mulling over the issue of how to throw the turnouts on my layout for a while now. I bought a BullFrog controller a while back to test but I was disappointed because it wasn’t working very well. It … Continue reading →

The last update showed turnouts that had been completed and painted. Last week I installed six of them and some more straight sections of track. I’m pretty much done with laying track until I can get the bridges sorted out … Continue reading →