UP SD40-2's NEW Layout

[UP SD40-2]

David, your right, it will be 3% greener  . Great Idea on the screen for the vacuum too! thanks!

OK, update to last nights post, now that the glue soup has dried up a little bit, was able to take a few pics  

NOW, i think about 97% of my layout has ground cover on it, there are only a couple small areas that still need it but the vast majority of the layout is covered!  Still have fences to put up, trees, bushes/shrubs, weeds, cinders and dirt on the siding tracks....ugh, so much left, not to mention the rail yard facilities, but non the less, a good milestone had been reached over the last week.


In this pic you can see I have started bringing in a little green into the GERN area, I think I am going to renovate some of the Town of Owen area too, thats to the right of GERN, not pictured. 


This pic brings so much joy to me!! What you are seeing here is the VERY LAST of the double mainlines FULLY BALLASTED!!  
OMG, I am so Happy! Did I ever mention how much I hate ballasting? Sure, I still have some ballasting with cinders in the yards and a bit on sidings to do, but thats nothing, much easier then doing the mainline. Also I added some grass between the mainline and first yard track.


So now, I am still a million miles away from being finished with anything, but it sure is nice looking at the layout now and not seeing bare wood  . 

This last pic here is the very first taken with an engine in the newly worked on area. I am pretty darn sure I have never taken a pic of this engine as long as I have had it, I bought it at a show years ago, its an Athearn BB, what got me thinking of this engine was Toms FA's he recently posted, I dont have any FA's, but I do have this PA, still need to put a coupler on the front, and the horns, but thats about it.


Till next time....