PRRfan's Layout Progress

Good evening PRR Fan, I know what your talking about now. Had a brain fart!!!!

 

Thanks for the info, and I think it's not to early to say Merry Christmas !!!!  

Looking very nice!

Merry Christmas to you too!

Thank you, Rich.  Your layout is awesome, I've been following your progress thread too.

My next venture is the yard area.  I want to replace the current building with  Woodland Scenic's (Jim) Morrison's Door Factory and I will be putting down some of Brennan's yard ballast.  

This layout is getting better and better - really nice work! 

 

Mixy

Thanks, Mixy - I really appreciate it.  

I received Brennan's ballast yesterday and I am very pleased.  Here's the little bit I've put down so far...

 

Layout is coming along nicely.  The ballast looks great.

 

Thanks for keeping us updated.

Awesome layout !

Latest addition is the Woodland Scenics Morrison's Door Factory:

 

I really like that model. May have to get one myself sometime!

Looking great !!!

Like the Northwest Excavator.

 

I have the same model but in a shovel front.

 

I am not sure where the time went over the holidays so I never got time to work on putting the mortar lines in my engine house.

 

Got too love the Pennsy !!!!!!

PRRfan,

The factory looks really good there on your layout!

I don't know how I missed this topic, but I see you have done a ton of work in a very short time!!  

 

I need to go through the previous posts and see more closely what you have done.  I hope to be building a new layout in the near future.

I really like your PRR tool house model - nice!

This is pretty much what I started with about four months ago - I've been pretty busy since. 

Thanks, Norm.  That was my first scratch-built building from about seven years ago.  I based it off some crude PRR drawings I found on line and a few photos.  A year later I made a trip to Renovo to measure and photograph the coaling tower; lo and behold there was a tool shed re-located to its original home.   

 

PRRfan,

  Great job on your layout. Hope my next one comes out as well.

 

Tom

Awesome work! Love the Scratch built tool house!

That RS11 is sharp , we almost got the same one.

PRRfan,

I just read through your thread and your layout is awesome. You have made great progress and your work is first rate. Keep it up!

 

 

The layout just keeps getting better & better.

another Pennsy fan says great job!

Awesome layout!! Looks Great. What are the dimensions of your layout?

 

Bruce

Nice job filing the corner with a great scratch build.

Very Nice progress on the PRR Layout. I am also a Pennsy fan and like what you have done. I like all the cars. They work well with all that is going on around town.

Keep up the good work. Slow down and enjoy the ride..

 

I love my RS-11; I bought it new from Jim Sutter in 2008 for $239 - IMO quite a bargain for a decently detailed, scale engine with PS2 and DCS.

Hey Spence, I'm glad you're back and I hope your feeling well.

Thanks, Brian.  I probably should slow down some, I enjoy building a layout a little more than running trains.  At least for me trains are my winter hobby; spring and summer I leave to my car and motorcycle.  

 

I've always have been a diecast collector and I'm now obsessed with getting 1/43 and 1/50 scale vehicles, so I figured I'd use my layout to display them.  I have a few that will be arriving this week - I'll post some pics soon!

I've been spreading ballast here and there - I get burned out on ballast pretty quick.  I also been working on an Ameritowne Flag Stop Station kit; I'm not really sure where to put it quite yet.  There is also some new die cast for the layout as well. 

 

Good Humor truck is a new one - very cool!

Door factory looks great.  Loved the scratched built shed.  The layout is coming along really well.

 

Thanks for the update!

Very well done.

just better and better!

Hello PRR Fan, looks great. 

It's amazing adding ballast to the track changes the tracks appearance.

I remember the first time I put ballast down on our Christmas Layout and was only going to do a small section at the front of the layout.

It looked so good I came home from Midnight mass Christmas eve and put rest of the Ballast down till I ran out.

The day after Christmas it was off to Homer City PA. to buy another container of ballast and put down some more.

 

I agree laying ballast is tedious but the results I think are worth it.

 

I am going got get one of the Flag Stop Stations,  to me the stone work is very Pennsy like.

 

Like the additional Diecast, The Mack truck with the New York Central box is real nice.

 

Take care have a good weekend !!!!!

 

PRR Fan, did you ever decide on a control system for your Pennsy Signals ???

Well I haven't been doing anything good lately.

 

Here's a mistake I made trying to make weeds and grass around the yard.  I hated the way it looked so I vacuumed it up.

I redid the trees around the bike shop and added more greenery.

And here's the mess of wire that runs it all, I don't know how electricians do it!

 

The ground cover in the yard looked good. Maybe the duller shade of darker green might have blended in a little better. But otherwise good.

 

The corner area around the bike shop looks great. Seems very established.

 

Your wiring looks great as well. Much neater than anything that I've managed to string up.

Nice work ! I can't believe how similar your layout is to mine ! Big difference is that you are actually making progress. I keep getting sidetracked by pet projects, such as some two rail O trolleys that I finishing for an inner loop on my three rail. I'm embarassed to even send photos now because of all of the wacky projects I have in "storage" on my layout. Anyway, nice work again ! forgot to ask, do you have trouble with thos Atlas uncouplers ? I found, ironically, that the Atlas PRR passenger cars I have, like to rip off their roller pickups on the uncouplers. 

Everything in your photos looks very nice.  Your wiring is neater than on most layouts.  As long as you can find the wires and connections when you have trouble or want to make changes, the wiring is good.

Great looking layout and you've made great progress, nice job!!

 

Paul

Good evening PRR fan, i think the green looks good around the track.

Next time maybe add some different kind of colors or different grasses to mix it up a bit.

 

I have used pillow stuffing that you buy at craft stores and pulled it apart.

I spread it out on a piece of cardboard and spray painted primer red little bit of green and some light tan.

I put it along the tracks using some Woodland Scenics foam glue as you did and then sprayed it with Matte Medium.

I then sprinkled some fine foliage from Woodland Scenics or Scenery Express on top of it.

 

To me it looks like a row of bushes or what we use to call as kids a Jagger bushes (throne bushes).

On my layout after the fine foliage I sprinkled snow on top of it.

Even though it is winter time the fine foliage gives it some color and texture.

 

Just a thought, keep up the great work.