Just Between You, Me, and the Cottonwood Tree: Life Lessons from the Cabin

Kind of a slow day, so I finalized the switching track locations and started prepping for actually laying rail.
So far there are two side tracks (running to the centers of the figure "8") for storing cars and idle motive power as needed.
The track on the right that crosses from the curve to the straight is actually a reverse loop track and will be isolated from the rest and controlled by a reverse relay. This allows me to reverse the direction of travel and back the cars into the side tracks. I will be controlling it manually at first from a setup I made for a previous track, but might actually order an automatic setup so I won't have to remember to reverse it.
There will also be a shelf mounted "yard", right on the front of the layout, to accommodate two or three more sidings for additional storage. I have all the foam track bed in place except for the switching area's. it's better to allow the turnout track to flow naturally, then place the bed underneath rather than try to force turnouts into unnatural curves.

The plastic based track is just there to help keep alignment going into the curves while I'm in the planning stages. .


Soldered up some power leads.


and marked the track bed in its entirety to aid in keeping the polarity correct as there will be a few sections that will need to have power brought to them due to the number of isolated connections. To avoid smoke and flames. But you never know.

 

no smoke, no flames. Sorry to disappoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRX48yb0Cg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTHQEi_kOQI

 

Question is what will young Brett do this wheeling season that will need to be memorialized in this layout? Skipping in the fog was so last year.

 

Forget about a RTT... I'm getting this thing for my Prius

 

Prius Privy

 

when i see this trainset talk all i can think of is this



One of my fav things from my childhood

 

I had an entire room in my house just for my track, crawled under the table to get to the center of it where the controls were.

 

WITAF??

 

Now for the Luxe Prius shit

 

Looks like s Mr. Potato head toupe...

 

Volkswagen did it better. I'd totally rock this.

 

He nearly didn't make it back from Escalante:

IMAG0293 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

 

More of Eric's steadfast determination in Escalante.

I call this series: "Eric conquers small rock: great victory"

Eric (1 of 3) by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

Eric (2 of 3) by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

Eric (3 of 3) by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

 

You sonofabitch

 

Those pics don't give that rock justice.