Let’s Hide Some Wires

After waiting for my wife to arrive home from work last night (I wanted to show her a test run) it was time to start and hide some of the wiring. The track was traced with pencil (good thing I went with the light brown paint, the pencil marks were very easy to see) and I commenced on drilling some holes under the track. Below each of the turnouts needed a hole, and I needed 5 more holes for the power feeds. I have 4 power feeds under the double crossing and 1 more across on the other side.

Once I fed all the wiring through the holes, I also began to secure the track to the trackboard with screws. My plan with this layout is to be able to move it off the bar if the need arises.

As of right now, I am quite happy on how it is turning out.

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Michigan City Swap Meet...Recap

Now that I am ready to start to add some buildings and terrain to my layout I decided to hit up a swap meet in Michigan City, IN today to see if I can get lucky. My goal was to mainly shop for N scale buildings first, then anything that I could find that was C&NW related. Majority of the vedors that were on hand were selling HO scale and Lionel. I knew that getting into N scale I would have a harder time finding items, but I really do like the look of N scale over HO, I am probably in the minority but I feel N scale actually has more detail than HO scale. I did an initial pass of all the vendor tables and did find two C&NW boxcars along with a N scale Freight Depot building all for $20, so I was pretty happy so far. I decided to go and double back now and search more throughly to see if I could find anything else. I cam across a C&NW gondola car, another N scale Soda Shoppe building, then buried under a lot of boxes, I found a KATO Chicago METRA Gallery Bi-Level Commute

Scenery: December 2017 WIP (City and Park)

It has been aboout three weeks since my last update and things are moving along on my little N Scale layout. The first week in December I had my son visiting from out of town so not much was accomplished, then doing scenery work takes a lot of time. Waiting for paint to dry, waiting for glue to dry and so on. So here is a litte update on how things are going with my City and Park. It is still all a work in progress, and it will probably still be awhile before I get to any actual buildings. I am working on the areas where the building will go first, then the actual buildings.

Coloma Rails - N Scale Model Railroading

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