Some photo updates

Not a whole lot of action this month, with a lot of time spent playing trains with the kids.  I have packed up the Aussie stuff and cracked out my US trains which are primarily Wisconsin Central focussed.  

More ballast has arrived (4kg), so I have been ballasting a bit early morning and late at night, having laid almost 2kg over the last 3 days.  


The front corner of Jonestown has progressed with some dirt and greenery.  WIth more ballast laid, some more dirt will go down this coming weekend.  


A single SD45 pulling a string of Roadrailers.  I haven't run these Bowser models for about 15 years, and they still go pretty well.  


A WC grain train departing Jonestown Yard and heading for the temporary bridge.


While not part of the layout design, a temporary bridge allows the layout to be a continuous run which is keeps trains moving while I work on various things.  It also creates a bit of a headache when you want to run trains so operations do get more interesting.  The bridge is not normally in place for proper operations.


I have installed two Taa Valley Hex Frog Juicers.  While I have used a lot of cheap switches which double as a point lever and frog powerer, I do like these for their simplicity.  I have used them on tight yard points where a switch was hard to install.   


Patched Algoma Central SD40 is now WC6004 with a short turn at Nathan's Point, about to start some switching.

Enjoy!