K&I #810 Switches The Branchline

[Drew1125]

I apologize if this is boring anybody, but I just kinda got on a roll with the camera here...(did I just make a really bad pun?)
Anyway, here's some shots of that ol' black geep goin' about her chores...
The 1st job of the day is to pull that loaded GVR boxcar off the siding at Maupin Mfg.

 

[Drew1125]

Now she heads over to Leigh Foods to pick up a reefer...

 

[Drew1125]

Now it's back over to the chemical plant to pull a tanker out from the loading platform...
(I see those slugs down at the K&I paint shops still haven't gotten around to painting that one! )

 

[Drew1125]

#810 pushes her consist south, to pick up the caboose, & then it'll be northbound back to staging...(off the layout)

 

[alkcnw]

Nice work Charlie

 

[jon-monon]

If that's boring, they're on the wrong forum! Or maybe they should take the lead from photo #2 and get some refer to liven it up a bit Hey, is that a crossing that's half ripped out in the foreground of #4 or is it a turnout and the perspective makes it look funny? I was looking at the Laf map at Pappa Johns while I was waiting on my pie and I notice the tracks had 90 deg corners

 

[Tyson Rayles]

Looking good Charlie!

 

[Drew1125]

Originally posted by jon-monon
.... Hey, is that a crossing that's half ripped out in the foreground of #4 or is it a turnout and the perspective makes it look funny? ....

Jon,
There is a 30 degree crodssing in there, but I don't think it shows in that photo...
I was digging around, & found some old 35mm pics I took when I was first building the layout...
I'll attach some recent ones too, to kinda give you an idea of the track plan.
This first one is a view to the left...

 

[Drew1125]

Wow, those are HUGE!!
Here's a view to the right...

 

[Drew1125]

And here's a view of the crossing, & run-around track in the middle of the layout.

 

[Drew1125]

Here's what the view tot the left looks like now...

 

[Drew1125]

And to the right...

 

[jon-monon]

Hey Charlie, that's pretty cool seeing the trackwork, then the finished product. I'm going to take a lot of pictures along the way.

I saw a crossing with old track pulled out by little plastic people and the old track used to go to the engine house (left). Obviouse that I was wrong when seeing the pic on the right. Not that it really matters, I guess I was just curiouse. You know what they say, curiosity got the Catt.

 

[t. alexander]

Great tour Charlie, "more boring photo's"? It should be against the law to say that here

t.