Some motivation and free time led me to the train room this past week. I had a local historical group come for a visit so the room got a deep cleaning and the layout got some much needed maintenance and repair. Afterwards, I decided to take some updated photographs of the layout and room.

 Here's a shot of the family area of the room. During planning, i wanted to fill this area with a helix for more main line run but I'm glad I didn't. We're really enjoying this shared space.

 I turned around after taking the photo above and got a shot of the rest of the room. I'm holding off on carpet for this part of the room until scenery is done. You can see the Port of Greenville above the stairwell and the Artesia yard on the right lower deck.

 A GP10 creeps out of the interchange at Ackerman, MS. This is a proto-freelanced scene. There is an old IC/GM&O interchange at Ackerman but no street running. I borrowed the street running scene from the town of New Albany, MS just up the old GM&O line.

A North bound empty grain train passes TXI cement as it enters the yard at Artesia, MS.


Now that I have some motivation, I hope to get some work done on the layout soon.