I have been collecting Southern Pacific gear, and other stuff, since my first layout which I started around 1980. This is my fourth layout and I have learnt a few do's & dont's in the in the last 30 years.
My first layout used commercial code 100 track and when I used finescale equipment I suffered wheelsets "falling into" frogs etc no need to say anymore.....
My second layout was mainly hand laid code 75 which progressed well until my kids came along and with a dramtically increasingly heavy work pressures reulting in me just running out of time... everything basically went into recess for 4-5 years.
My third layout in a new house utilsed a number of existing sections from layout 2 and a few pictures of Layout 3 are shown below.
Well commercial developers came along and wanted my property for a supermarket carpark and following a reasonably attractive settlement I had to find a new property to house my new layout - layout 4.
Below are schematics of the upper and lower levels of layout 4.
Le Maistre loco was built by "The Crew" whilts I was organising the relocation.
The Crew
Thre has been some movements in Le Maistre Loco which are shown in the videos below:
The Hunting Brach is also progressing...
2009
2010
Hope this has been interesting...
Cheers
Jim
