Barry's Model Railroad

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Preparing for the layout table

Back inside now after quite a few good hours outside with the garden railroad.
I have made arrangements with Oscar Hagerman, a local builder, to construct the train tables needed for the indoor layout. We agreed on a price and are ready to go, all I need to do is save up the money and construction will begin. The layout will be a large U shape table featuring a downtown area with a nice park for the residents and a passenger station, a farming area, a coal mine, a freight yard area, and a camping area. I have a few buildings from a layout I did for practice that I will be using.
I figure that I will be ready to start construction on the tables sometime before Fall. I can hardly wait.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

It's a Beautiful Day

The weather is turning warmer and there is not a cloud in the sky. I am ready to run my garden railroad today. The New York Central Alco F-A unit is ready to pull my freight cars. The track is all cleaned off and ready to go. Sandy is going to glue down some landscaping highlights. and I've already repaired the buildings that were damaged over the Winter. It tried to run it on March 7th but the wind was to strong. Wish me luck.