Ryan’s Railroad

Posted By on August 22, 2010

Switching Track

Ryan is another of our railroad-minded students and he chose to model a railroad yard. We used a classic John Allen Timesaver track plan and we added an Atlas turntable at one end.

We built the layout on a block of pink foam-board and glued 1/4″ plywood on the sides and bottom making a light but extremely rigid foundation.

Switching Track

Ryan soldered all the electrical connections.

Ryan Soldering

Dan Running the Trains

Here the ground has been painted and the track has been airbrushed. Ryan is cleaning the paint off the tops of the rails.

Cleaning the Tracks

The temptation to run some trains as soon as possible was irresistible.

Running the Trains

Ryan and the Layout

Next we ballasted all the track.

Ryan's track

Then we got Ryan started building some structures. He quickly mastered the plastic buildings.

Ryan's building kit

Ryan building some structures for his layout

We have placed the buildings on the layout and we’ll blend the bases into the scenery in the coming weeks.

The turntable

A small place of our own

Ready for some more scenery, grass, trees and trains.

Looking down thw tracks


About The Author

Dan is the Director of Studio Operations and co-founder of Autistry Studios which means that he's the guy who keeps everything working. Mechanical, Electrical, and Computational. In his spare time he teaches many "build stuff" workshops and if any time is left over after that he builds model trains or anything else he is momentarily interested in. Dan@Autistry.com http://www.facebook.com/daniel.swearingen http://www.polyweb.com/danno

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