First Run

This morning, I finished laying track with the help of my Dad. An advantage if a smaller layout like mine is that tracklaying can be completed in the span if a few days. I used plain Atlas code 83 flextrack for the track.

After tracklaying was completed, I hooked the layout up to a power source and started to test the layout. An alco RS-3, currently primary locomotive, was run back and forth to test to see if the layout would actually work.

The video above shows the first test run of the layout.

I then put together a train of three cars and ran it from where staging will eventually be located to the town of Norway. The video is broken into three parts for ease of uploading them to the blog.

This part of the video shows the train leaving from near the future staging area, running through the countryside module, and entering the corner module.

This part of the video shows the train crossing Bird Brook and entering the yard at Norway. 

This shows the train coming to a stop in Norway. Enjoy the videos!