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Working the coal shed into my layout motivated me to so some scenery in this part of my layout. That includes ballasting track, gluing down a layer of fine soil, and adding static grass in a couple of shades representing wintertime.
Here I've ballasted track and must now work the ground cover up to the ballast.
I see that I have more rail joiners to paint a rusty color.
I've applied static grass around the shed:
A distant view of track-work with partially-complete ballasting.
I'm real slow at applying ballast, in part because I do a short section, clean up the track, and run a train across as a check that all is well. I discovered one section of rail was no longer getting power; presumably glue crept into a rail joiner and something had gone wrong with the electric drop to the power bus.
As I add dirt and winter grass I need to also plant trees to take away the desert look.
Mike
Here I've ballasted track and must now work the ground cover up to the ballast.
I see that I have more rail joiners to paint a rusty color.
I've applied static grass around the shed:
A distant view of track-work with partially-complete ballasting.
I'm real slow at applying ballast, in part because I do a short section, clean up the track, and run a train across as a check that all is well. I discovered one section of rail was no longer getting power; presumably glue crept into a rail joiner and something had gone wrong with the electric drop to the power bus.
As I add dirt and winter grass I need to also plant trees to take away the desert look.
Mike
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