Atomic Systems

This is all still a bit new to me, but here is my first foray into the world of scale rail.

N gauge Kato track, Chesapeake and Ohio Steam 2-8-0 and 2-8-4 with ATSF switcher for Oliver

The base board is 4'6 by 2'6, made from the 2" insulation foam from B&Q, glued with "no more nails"



Still waiting for a few more straights to finish it off.





I've still not plucked up enough courage to pull the locos apart to install the decoders yet.

Paul,

Just noticed thats one heck of a Scissors crossing there! I'll have to post some pics of my new Toy on here- I think you'll like it!

Tim C

6 Months on and still under construction.

I purchased 2 Digitrax DS64 controllers each can control 4 points (or switches as it is a US railroad) - Luckily I had 8 on the layout.

The foam base is proving very easy to work with, solid and light.
I drilled through holes for the wires then cut small channels to run them to the main bus.
The wires from the points are channelled to the controllers.
Eventually this will all be covered with duck tape.

The controllers take power from the main bus and there are 4 track connection points

I love the simplicity of DCC, just 2 wires leave the layout on one end.


On the other side I have glued the points and power connectors to the base, the rest of the Kato track can still be removed so the layout is still quite transportable.
The "stream" was cut out and sanded smooth. I then painted the surface with watered down PVA and sprinkled on sand.
When dry I removed the excess and painted with dull brown exterior paint. This has given a lovely rough solid surface to work with.

Looking good Paul. You might want to consider a 60mm x 15mm edging round the outside edge (Cut out for the stream) as protection when moving or manouvering the layout to prevent edge damage.