My general plan has been to complete the track work and then scenic. I tried my hand at ballasting in areas I thought were safe from revision. Not the case as more gets built and I begin to get a sense of converting a hi-railish multi-loop plan into something more conducive to operations without tearing out years and years of hand-laid track. At the rate I'm going the plywood prairie will become solid track. Who needs scenery then? Ben Trousdale
--- In [email protected], tennsgauge@... wrote: > > My goal is to run trains about 90% of the time. > > But I have found it a little bit of fun decorating cars and locos for my > favorite railroads that cannot be purchased R-T-R, especially L&N. Maybe > fun is not the right word. It probably should be "satisfying" when the > model > is complete and ready to operate. > > I hate the maintenance. A special disgust is when I cannot solve a > problem that should be simple. I thrown up my hands and scream at trying to > put > scale couplers on some of my AM FP7s and E8s. I ordered special parts > from AM for this and they simply do not fit. But my goal is to get this > stuff done, finish the layout, and run trains as much as possible. > > Of course a layout is never finsihed because we keep seeing more things > that are possible. So someday I may start doing scenery after the trackwork > and wiring are complete. And maybe I will do interiors in my passenger > cars. I have started one such project. But I want to run trains. > > - Earl Henry, Nashville > > > > In a message dated 3/25/2011 8:16:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > edandhdavis@... writes: > > I have a question for those who have a home layout or anybody that's > interested. > How much time do you spend running trains ( operating ) compared to > building > structures, sceniking (sp), or working on locos and rolling stock? I love > running trains but there always seems to be something that needs to be > done on > the layout that interferes with operating. Is this typical? Just curious. > > Ed Davis > Stockton > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
