Panoramica

The freight yard – June 2011

Albeit slowly, our layout works are going on.
What is now to do is the freight yard completion and the depot displacement to the station opposite side.
Here we are going to describe the work on the yard.

First sleepers and railhead painting , for which we make a two home-made tools, a brass and sponge roller for the formers and a rotating brush with dispenser, a common syringe, for the latters.

Sleepers roller
Sleepers roller
Railhead rotating brush
Railhead rotating brush
Railhead paintng
Railhead paintng

After positioning the freight warehouse and the road base, the escarpment built off-work (read the article), we positioned and fix the buildings.

Warehouse positioning
Warehouse positioning

Il posizionamento richiede l’uso della livella, in quanto i moduli non spianano perfettamente, e l’edificio dello scalo necessita di spessori sotto la base per il perfetto livellamento.

Leveling control
Leveling control

Meglio è andata con la torre dell’acqua, che ha trovato collocazione senza interventi aggiuntivi.

Water tower positioning
Water tower positioning

We make the yard forecourt roadbed using plaster leveled with a spatula and sanded after drying.

Warehouse forecourt
Warehouse forecourt

We make the track crossings with forex, directly engraving the counter rail on the material. Subsequently, very fine sea sand is glued onto the parts.

Forex track crossing
Forex track crossing

We make the block sections by cutting one rail per track and welding the power supply wires to be connected later to the feedback modules.

Rails cutting
Rails cutting

We arrange the turnouts leverages and proceed with ballasting. We are using Woodland Scenics buff and brown medium ballast coating with a light weathering when dried.

We apply a veil of fine sand, off-white airbrushed, on the ground .

We add Polak bushes, flockage and Model Scenes firs, self-built gorse and even a few laser-cut Noch ferns.

Ballast
Ballast

We then place a Volvo excavator, the Vfcc wagons (TTm kit), spare rails, one scratch-built tree, bumpers a photo-etched double-leaf gate.
And now some details…

Escavator and wagons
Escavator and wagons
Escavator and wagons
Escavator and wagons
Overview
Overview

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