New engines

 Some recent acquisitions ...

Piko 96315 DCC Sound

ACME 60190 & ESU LokSound V5 DCC

MTB H0CD362-040 & ESU LokPilot V4 DCC

Piko 96341 & Piko 56569

Piko 51957 DCC Sound

Roco 63555 & ESU 58820 LokSound V5 DCC Micro 8 Pin

Streets and buildings outline - part 7

 

Now that the outline of the various buildings are drew on the platform, it gives me an idea about how much I have for the other side. 

A while back, I purchased a set of houses from Regions & Companies:

Alignement de 5 Maisons du Nord - réf QNO001-F

 

I started building this kit. For now, I found a certain lack of instructions. I think it will be fine from afar, but maybe not up close.

Train Charter Service ( TCS )

 

As part of the European Sleeper, there are some coaches from EuroExpress. I was able to find those from Heris - they are pretty rare. Those coaches are rented for other charter trains, such as TCS. As it turns out, Piko just released the BR 101 in the TCS livery.

 

Prototypical train formation 

I could not find a formation on www.vagonweb.cz, but there are plenty of photos on Flickr:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/197790649@N04/53707220993/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126584084@N05/53713824681/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trainboy2004/53929193544/

Miniature models

Here's the formation:

Description	Image	Reference	In stock
BR 101 TCS		Piko 51957	✔
Am		Heris 11312.1	✔
Bcmoh		Heris 11312.2	✔
Bocm028		Heris 11314.1	✔
Bcm		Heris 11314.2	✔
Bocm028		Heris 11315.1	✔
Bcm		Heris 11315.2	✔
Bocm028		Heris 11314.1	✖
Bcm		Heris 11314.2	✖
Bocm028		Heris 11315.1	✖
Bcm		Heris 11315.2	✖

And the video:

More track work ...

 

 I focused on ballasting switches over the last couple of days:

Streets and buildings outline - part 6

 

I'm almost done with ballasting the area in the back, so I need to think about where I'd need to put the scenery divider. To do that, I need to know how things are positioned on the front part.

First, I cleaned up the layout, then I placed the map where it should fit:

At that point, with a small screwdriver and a hammer, I marked every line intersection to go through the paper. Then I traced the outlines directly on the layout.

I'm quite happy with the outcome because I can fit the all area without squeezing anything; except the fret hall and the road crossing on each end - which I knew.

Next step is to work on the scenery divider!

More track work ...

 

Slow progress, but progress ... 

I've done the below in small sections over several days ...