La Mirada, CA Industrial Switching Layout Progress

[Herc Driver]

That look good! I like the elevated mainline with the concrete ties. The weathered rail looks good too.

[tetters]

Looks good Josh.

I wouldn't stress about the appearance of ballast on the ties. Everywhere I look around here in T.O. I see bits of ballast to large spreads of it on top of the ties. Even on the Go Train and Via Passenger Train corridors that cut through the neighborhood close to my house. It's quite liberating to know that if you get some stuck to your ties that it is actually how it looks in the real world.

[ocalicreek]

Did you forget to slip some ties between the turnouts and the flex track?

Galen

[Trucklover]

That look good! I like the elevated mainline with the concrete ties. The weathered rail looks good too.

Thanks Herc!

Looks good Josh.

I wouldn't stress about the appearance of ballast on the ties. Everywhere I look around here in T.O. I see bits of ballast to large spreads of it on top of the ties. Even on the Go Train and Via Passenger Train corridors that cut through the neighborhood close to my house. It's quite liberating to know that if you get some stuck to your ties that it is actually how it looks in the real world.

Thank you Tetters

And yeah I know that a little ballast here and there is okay, but i dont know why it just bugs the heck out of me and drives me nuts when I see it on the tops of my ties here and there LOL. thats why I spend so much time checking twice and then again

Did you forget to slip some ties between the turnouts and the flex track?

Galen

Galen,

Your right, I did I think its a little too late to go back and put ties in though, so ill have to live with that one i guess. I dont feel like ripping up the ballast in those spots to fix that. Ill just have to remember to do that on all the other modules

[Trucklover]

Small update regarding the GP60M's for the layout

As you may have read, there will be 6 of them serving the layout. i was originally concerned about getting only Athearn RTR GP60M's from the 2009 run, but since ive heard that nothing has really changed in the guts of the GP60M's from the 2003 run to the latest run of them, I feel better about getting some of the older run GP60M's as well. Also, thanks to Andy, he pointed out that i do not have to renumber all of them because La Mirada gets new locomotives every 90 days, and there will never be the same numbers there. So this is what im going to do:

2 GP60M's in the Heritage II paint scheme, roadnumbers 112 and 157
2 GP60M's in the BNSF Warbonnet paint scheme, roadnumbers 139 and ?
2 GP60M's in the Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme, roadnumbers 144 & 152

I already have a Santa Fe Warbonnet which is #152 and a BNSF Heritage II which is #112. So I will be ordering 4 more, (1) of #157, (2) of #139; one of them will have to be renumbered as there is not 2 #'s available so there is no way of getting around renumbering one of them, and (1) of #144. This will give me 2 GP60M's in each of the 3 paint schemes BNSF has currently and whatever the numbers that Athearn did on them will be just fine since La Mirada wont have the same #'s from time to time anyhow

Im gunna order the 4 hopefully Tuesday

[Trucklover]

And one more update, I just pulled the trigger and placed an order for 3 more GP60M's. This will give me a total of 5 GP60M's, and all I will have to do is find one more BNSF Warbonnet GP60M, maybe I can pick one up on HOYARDSALE or ebay so I wont have to re-number it like i planned to do. Ill look for a while, and if I can find one ill just have to hope that Trainworld still has them lol

These are the 3 that I just ordered and hopefully will ship to me on Tuesday:

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