Indiana City

[mountaingoatgreg]

Wow that is really nice, I am glad I do not have anything close to that complicated. I really do enjoy your thread and am really impresed with your work and please keep us posted on your progress.

[Chuck]

That track work is amazing! Absolutely beautiful. Your layout looks great and I enjoy following the thread. Thanks!

Chuck

[IndyCity]

Thank you, folks.

The last few day i have experimented with various materials that I have lying around here for the design of vegetation.

That's what came out here:









The last kick still lack. Let's see what else is there.

[teejay]

Looking really good at this point ......never tried hand laid track , but that crossover looks awesome .

Terry

[IndyCity]

I got the next delivery of cork boards and so I was able to continue building on the current end at the right.

On a strip between a road and branchline will be the rest of the old ITC-yards from the interurban era. The remaining tracks will be grown strong and covered with discarded freight cars of the ITC.



The yard is disconnected everywhere at this end for many years and now new track connections were built over the old ground level.





Right next to the "old ITC-yard" is the old branch line track in the street, which is now still in use as a siding and was joined on the new track connections again.

For the pavement I used Vollmer brick boards. The rails are grooved rails in the road subgrade.



Let's see how far I can get this weekend.

[sailormatlac]

Joerg, what it the u-shaped rail you use for the street running. It looks like streetcar channel rail. Is it custom made?

Keep up your good work!

Matt

[IndyCity]

Matt,

i bought this grooved rail from a german dealer http://www.hobby-ecke.de/ of kits for hand laid tracks.

I think it was made by SWEDTRAM http://www.swedtram.se/eng/.

[IndyCity]

The soldering is done:







Next will be painting and scenery.

[IndyCity]

Next step ist done.

The yard tracks are painted.



Then they were ballasted and arranged with grass and weed















Then i put the first of those cars on the track who will be arraned here later after detailing and been painted as old discarded ITC cars



Some yellow grass and weed is still missing. But I have to wait for a parcel of my dealer.

[faraway]

That looks really great

[mountaingoatgreg]

That dow look liek a great little scene!!!

Have you considered adding joint bars along this stretch of track, details west makes platic ones that can be glued on with CA and paitned with the same paint you painted the rail. Also on many prototype yards when a section of track becomes unused many parts are robbed from it cush as frogs, switch points, joint bars and even rail. You may consider removing some of these parts.

Keep up the great work and keep us posted!

[Ralph]

Fantastic effects with the overgrown track!
Ralph

[IndyCity]

Thank you all.

Greg,

good ideas. I'll follow them when i model the rest on the next segment.

[modelsof1900]

Looks phantastic, Joerg!

[sailormatlac]

Cool stretch of abandonned trackage!

Matt