Terraforming

Terraforming has started on the southernmost part. I use a mix of plaster, glue, paint and sawdust. The plywood strip are going to be a narrow road.

More testing

Last evening the trackwork on the third, the interchange section began. And here are a few photos from today when it was ready to test. First a wiew of the layout.

A closer look to the connection. There are still a lot of soldering to do.


Testing

First real trains on Crawford Junction

After a long yesterday evening with the two sections bottom up and soldering switchmotors and track connectors. That made it possible to the first real test run of two Crawford sections today. First an overwiew from "South" or Chicago in the real world.


Ready for todays work is CB&Q 9215, a Kato NW2 with a short train.


Waiting on the interchange track is three cars from the Q


After a short trip are the cars on the interchange track for Milwaukee Road.

A short move.

And out again on it´s way back.

The dispathers office, Uhhh!

The temporary switch control.

And at last mr FredI.

And a short wiew of a pair of NW2:s, I was lucky and found a matching brother to the first on ebay.

Line up

Today the track was glued on the section with the interchange switch and here it´s lined up together with the central section

A Tower!

Todays small works, a test - Tower Zero, to see how it will look like on the module and to see that it looks prototypical (I´ve got just one picture of the real Crawford Tower). The big change to the real model will be the windows ant to mount them much closer to the surface.


On the module it looks nice I think.

Yesterdays work, legs aren´t fun to make but necesary.

Paintshop?

One step further... tomorrow i hope it will get the right colour.