First up, a bit of a milestone. The mainlines are in place.  Hurray!  Can’t run trains just yet as I need to drop feeders still.  But soon!  Once I get feeders in, I’ll begin work on the sidings.

I then started to paint the track. I wanted to paint the ties because:

1) To blend all the different colors of ties from the 3 types of wood tie track used.
2) To get rid of the plastic, glossy look of the stock flex track.

So far I’ve only painted the outside mainline using a Floquil Paint Pen in Rail Tie Brown (wood ties only of course).  I’ll get the second mainline done tomorrow evening.  Once I get the feeders soldered to the rails, I’ll go back and paint all the rail on the layout using Floquil’s Rail Brown paint pen.

Painted ties are on the left.

Painted ties on right:

And lastly, just a look at the “cardboard mountain” forming on the Marigny side of the layout.

Shaun Scenery, Track