Started my rail work today. Well not quite, the day was spent making a nice big area. Then I laid down an old green bedsheet I found on the floor and built a makeshift tunnel.
Need to get a board set up and landscape it properly. need more points first to get a track layout set up, then I can start.
This is the set I chose to start up with, the Virgin Pendolino, commonly seen. I'll add a few more different types once I have the infrastructure ready. Good choice I think, very detailed, with lights and it even tilts on the bends.
Peeking out of the tunnel ready to hit the straight:
Progressing along the straight, lights shining on the rails:
Heading outwards round a bend:
A nice-but-nothing-special blurred-motion shot:
I also dug out a couple of old sets from when I was young, obviously theyre now a but tatty. Some bits of track broken etc. My intercity HST sort of goes, I gave the cogs a good clean and checked the wires but not much better. Might just get a new one. I could make this one tattier and use it in the scenery somewhere, 'old train left to rot in a siding' or something.
The freight train that's there goes well, but it's not digital so probably not worth bothering with. Although the wagons might be useful.
I think on my 'wanted' list things include Eurostar, a local Central Trains one, the Pullman, Hogwart's Express and a freight one of some kind.
And of course I have to build a station of some sort, I think I'll enjoy the creativity.
