Adirondack RR up and running

Great progress since November! That's impressive!

Your baseball field was the most eye catching thing for me. It looks really good! How did you do the grass?

Nice job!  In photographs 2, I see the curved track comes right up to the touble track.  Have you tested to see if any of your equipment on the curve hit a train on the other track.  Maybe all of your engines and cars are short enoug to not overhang enough, but I would want to test it to be sure if you haven't.  Congratulations on getting things up and running.

Mark, the 3rd photo shows trains passing each other in that area. Plus, at the end of the video, there are trains running on all 3 tracks also passing each other. The view is from the other side of the bridge, but you can see the outside train coming to the bridge, the inside train going away from the bridge and the light of the train on the loop coming toward the bridge too. Hard to tell if a different mix of engines or different timing will result in a crash.

Very nice work. Looks like a fun layout.

One request- please shoot videos horizontally. Vertical doesn't cut it.  Please see Rich's post here

Dave, now I see that on the 3rd photograph.  It was hard to see on the phone, but now on the computer, I see the headlight of the third train.  Nice job, Adirondack!!

Thanks for the comments. Dave is correct - so far no contact between trains.  The outside loop is the only one where I will run any train that requires 54 inch curve. The AA Canadian pacific passenger cars are 21 inches. I will probably only run those cars sporadically.  The other loops are either 48 or 36. As much as I would like to be able to run the bigger trains, the layout is for fun and I like the post war scale.

will post videos horizontally in future.  I can see the difference now

will update when I get the next block of time to work on trains  unfortunately holiday is over and it’s back to work tomorrow !

@Adirondack RR posted:

will update when I get the next block of time to work on trains  unfortunately holiday is over and it’s back to work tomorrow !

This is a relatable statement! Unfortunately...

I do enjoy my work but know that I need to have a hobby going forward. Undertaking this project was a great idea. I learned a lot and know there is still much to grasp especially as I try to switch to command control and LCS.

Dave I used scenic express medium grass and fine soil brown. The plan for the field came from eBay  o scale baseball field. I cut out the infield etc and put down the grass and then covered the grass with the cut out and put down the dirt. I didn’t trust myself to freehand the outline.