More ballasting

Yes very boring work, but it as to be done, 4 days of ballasting.

I everyone, I would like to post more of my progress, but it's very boring progress. Installing tortoises and more to install, ballasting and lots more to ballast. Still working on my gorge and will start working on the access road to the Ann's flour mill from the town of St-Eugene.

Some might think it's not prototypical of having two types of ballast besides each other, well, you need a bit of imagination here. The brown/grey ballast track was done in 1958 and the grey ballast for the double main line was done in 1972.....LOL

I still need to weather the ballast and add static grass here and there....later.

That's it for now.

Testing tracks in the town of St-Eugene

I was testing the tracks in my town of St-Eugene after having painted the tracks. The train is arriving in the town yard which will take place in a winter scene.

End of February update.

This is my busiest time of the year work wise, so not much as progressed on the layout, but I still got some stuff done. For example, I’ve done my town of St-Eugene urban planning. Got the streets and driveways done, the skating rink, gas station, houses and utility poles have been planned and the backdrop has been ordered, this is my winter scene.

I’ve also build from scratch a diesel shop for the St-Eugene yard

 

Later

Latest update.

I spend 4 days in Springfield for the biggest North American Train show. Two days of clinics and another two days for the show.

For my first experience, it was pretty overwhelming. When they say two days is not enough to go through all 4 buildings, now i know why.

I did buy a few things such as a compressor for my airbrush, a track cleaning car and my favorite a laser cut front end of a FP-7 Canadian Pacific.

Since I've been back, I've been working on the town of St-Eugene, which will be a winter scene.

Later