A (slight) move

The overhead view is now slightly out of date. I've moved the layout slightly so 2 sides are against walls which means the left hand side of the layout now has a better backdrop of a blank white wall instead of boxes and bags of ballast! I've also begun a bit of a tree avenue in the near left-hand corner of the layout. As its now against the wall its sheltered against accidental knocks so i feel safer putting trees there. The gas station has also been augmented with some painting and some people.

Overhead view

I thought it was time i took an overhead view of Eskalon, and annotated it. Here it is.

Another new waggon

Pleased to announce another new waggon has joined the Eskalon layout. That now gives us 4 (not counting the industrial waggons).

Eskalon B

Eskalon the layout isn't finished yet though we are in the period of stability with much of the layout done. Now my attention is turning to a possible second layout, Eskalon B. This would be a small end to end industrial layout (110 x 20cm) which would fit nicely atop a bookcase next to Eskalon A! The B layout, if i build it, would be HOe scale too as this would allow me to use A to run trains in though i have been looking at TT scale too.

This is an early plan for the layout, despite a small size quite a nice little layout would be made i think, the siding on the far right would go into a backscene.

The gas station

Presenting the latest building on Eskalon a Piko kit of a Shell petrol station. Now all we need are some cars on the layout. I'm not sure where exactly the station will be located on the layout yet, it will be in this general area but may change orientation slightly. The kit is almost finished, just needs a bit of painting.

Media day

Now we seem to be finally getting somewhere with operating this layout i thought i'd take some good quality photos with my DSLR.  In other news a new building should be arriving soon.

Breaking up the passenger train

One reason i needed to find a solution to the coupling issue was that i have split up the passenger train and now both locos can haul a coach each. This adds some more fun to operation which otherwise can become a bit dull if the same locos are always hauling the same stock!