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,

The light at the end of the tunnel

Back in 2007  I unveiled the light at the end of the tunnel in my old layout. Since I was about to complete the mountain on the new layout, I installed the light in the new location.

Tunnel portals added

I have now added the tunnel portal for the mainline near the bridge and also for the road that goes under the bridge..

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.

Orogenesis

This shows the various stages of the construction of a mountain...

After laying the track so that we know exactly where the track would be (it is never exactly where the designer drew it to the mm) we constructed 'wire-frame' mountains out of K'NEX to get a feel for what it would look like. Working in 3D helps visualize what is to be built.