Last weekend I added a switch-track off the mainline, blasted through a double-track ramp and completed the Workshop Branch through the train shed and back. Now it’s easier to run 3 trains.
Nice looking layout, Mike
Thanks Ron, it is a little over a year old, but since I am away for 5 months in the summer, I only been building it for 9 months worth of work.
Gee, I have been playing with my railroad since…for a few years, and mine doesn’t look half as good as yours.
Thanks Dave, I probably spend too much time outside (according to my wife), but I am in Florida in the wintertime. Love being outside!
If I didn’t have winter, I probably wouldn’t have half the buildings on the layout that I do. Or anything to “fix” in the spring.
Nice layout!
Mike,
Great looking railroad. 
Very interesting Mike. Not seeing how the tracks are running outside… Don’t happen to have a small track layout drawing do you… Like the over and under idea around the town. Neat.
Thanks Guys,
Ken, I’ll be in PA over the summer and plan to build a Mill like yours. My running season is opposite yours. I will really miss the layout this summer May-September while in PA.
Noel, I do! If you click on the link in my signature to my faceboook photo album, it is the first photo. The mainline is exactly like the plan, the sidings were changed. Note that in the drawing photo, the top has cut-off the ramp going up and only shows the down ramp. Use your imagination to see the parallel ramp up track. The track going off the right side goes to the train shed, and has now become the return track for the workshop branch. The track to the workshop branch comes off the lower level track in the middle, and crosses under the double track ramp in the upper right corner. It was a recent vision and not in the plan. I designed the plan around existing bushes, fireplug, and of course, the meter box.
PS: For the first half of the video I am standing on the “backside” of the RR (the top of the plan looking down), the second half I am standing at the bottom of the plan looking up.