Mountain building part 2

The farm hill has to be joined to the landscape that runs down to the main station. I followed my usual steps...

Build a framework out of scrap wood,

Mountain repair phase 1

When I removed the farm section from my old house I had to cut the end of the mountain off to make it small enough to transport.

I decided it was time to patch up the end that got cut off and also join the other end onto the landscape of the new layout.

This shows the piece that was cut off.

Since I extended the station tracks, the new tunnel mouth has to move down so I decided to simply rebuild that end of the hill.

Building a mountain

My layout will have a long double line loop around the middle of the room and this loop will have two bridge areas to add interest. I am really keen to get this big mainline loop connected as it will finally allow me to run trains properly instead of running trains in one direction and then having to reverse them back again. Many consists do not reverse well so getting a loop of track will greatly enable my running capabilities.

Ruin with a view

Although I do not yet have enough pine trees to complete the hill, it is starting to look decent... at the old ruin is a kiosk (Faller B-291) that will sell the hikers drinks at ridiculous prices....