Pictures... Finally

Finally adding some pictures... had a crazy summer and didn't get much done on the layout. All of the track is now down minus a couple of spurs near the upper level where the coal mine is going to go (have to wait for Atlas to make new turnouts... apparently there was an issue with their factory in China)

First is the track plan:

This is a track plan from "Mike's Small Trackplans Page" (used with permission). I encourage you to check his site out if you're thinking about a small N scale layout (http://goo.gl/EToA5). I like them because he doesn't follow the typical "cram as much as you can into a small n scale layout" mentality. We stretched the length and width of the table to be slightly larger than door sized. We're going to put the passenger depot on what's shown as the bottom on the track plan with a connection to the road. As mentioned, main industry is going to be coal.

Did get the extra RDC I mentioned in my last post, haven't found the other SD70MAC however. The year is around 2003, so the two RDCs will be the Hurricane Turn train (http://goo.gl/GeXjq) and the SD70MACs will pull a cruisetour train and leave the GPs to pull the coal/freight trains.

 Next up is starting the scenery with the mountains and tunnels first.