Building new layout for my grandson, (and me,too) ! Nov. 2018 update!

Both of you should have fun!!

-Greg 

Looks great! Fun track plan and the Menards buildings really pop with the lights. Hope you and your grandson have a fun time. 

Good move making things operational first, then adding extra goodies as you go. It’s no good having a layout that gets bogged down in complexities and unable to actually run trains! 

It looks good, Jeff!  Your grandson can run some trains at Thanksgiving and look forward to seeing what else you put on the layout for his next visit.

I’m liking your track plan. Looks like a lot of fun!

Thanks for the comments. At some point we will get around to more scenery. Right now, he just wants to run trains. Probably fast, so that is the reason for the "crash board" edging around the sides.

Jeff

Looks like a lot of fun, people who don’t understand don’t relieze how much work it is. The grandson will love it!

And this is what it is all about. We had a great time running trains today after lunch.

Looks like a happy grandson to me!!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks. Yes, happy, especially when the trains go FAST. We are going to have to work on that FAST idea one of these days. I did get him to slow down enough so we could switch some cars into the salt spur track. Then fast again.

When you spend time with your grand children they will talk about you there whole life, but when you do it with a train lay out, its like planting a seed. They will ALWAYS feel a connection to you when they have there own lay-out even though you are gone!

Trains seem to span the generation gap, It’s like your grand children and yourself are the same age, share the same excitement, talk the same language.

Our trains/ layouts aren’’t worth much if we where to sell them used but the memory’s are priceless!! 

JD2035RR posted:

Looks great! Fun track plan and the Menards buildings really pop with the lights. Hope you and your grandson have a fun time. 

Good move making things operational first, then adding extra goodies as you go. It’s no good having a layout that gets bogged down in complexities and unable to actually run trains! 

I had to stop doing what I wanted to do (working on a major engine shed build) to prioritizing the snow village and xmas tree for the kids. Wrestled the polar express train back out of the box. 

Wrestled the Polar Express train back out of the box!  Yes indeed!  For a while I thought my Polar Express was going to pin me to the mat!!