Well today is a nasty rainy day so I decided to work on my layout. On one end I am building a tunnel mountain section.
I have the tunnel made but before I can put the roof on the tunnels I needed to put up a facia along that end of the layout.
I cut out the facia and cutout a access panel so I will be able to get to derailment if I have any and clean the track.
I have painted it and waiting for the paint to dry so I can mount it onto the layout. Once that is up I can put the roof on the tunnels. Then I can start to build the mountain on top of the tunnels.
Thats if for now I will post pic soon.
Happy Railroading!!! :)
anxiously awaiting those photos.
You don't need to worry. Trains never derail inside a tunnel.
Quote from: RAM on June 20, 2015, 10:37:15 PM
You don't need to worry. Trains never derail inside a tunnel.
BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaha! <snort!><gasp!>
Best laugh I've had all week. ;D
Happy Father's Day to those who are.
Len
I agree Len . Murphy's Law like Death operates everywhere & never takes Time off .
Here are a few update photo
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0510.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/192)
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0511.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/193)
Access Panel....I'll put nice knobs on it later.
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0512.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/194)
Inside the tunnel from the access panel.
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0513.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/195)
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0514.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/196)
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0516.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/198)
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/13/54/62/20/100_0515.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/view/13546220/197)
On master track planner John Armstrong's layout he had one of his "reverted loops". Along the facia he had put up a little sign that read "Cut here in case of excruciating difficulty". A good number of years later, if one looked, the facia had been cut into and the sign was amended to read "On (such-and-such a date) the difficulty was deemed to be excruciating and this hole was cut".
I like the twin tunnel portals. the remind me of some places I've been to like Gallitzin, pa and Alleghany, va..... on some lines they bored a second tunnel parallel to the original, rather than enlarge the older one.