The construction sequence is made at the end when I'm putting it all away. Step by step photos are taken as I take parts away from the layout, and then reversed in the video editor. The idea was given to me by my wife when we were filming the first layout and I was considering taking photos only to rebuild the layout then to film the construction. Not sure why I didn't think of that 
This layout took 3 evenings (if not more) of me adding, expanding and changing things to get the layout to the state I would consider complete and satisfying to run.
If I recall correctly:
Day 1 - building the first loop - clockwise with the switching stations in place - so already planning the other loop
Day 2 - adding the second loop, while making necessary changes to the first loop
Day 3 - Trying to add stops where we needed them and expanding the 'main station' area to add parallel tracks to allow separate lane for each train
Day 4 - must've been when I added the train yard, and made test runs, with more tweaks to the layout where trains were falling out of tracks due to some odd shaped combinations
Filming, at least spread over 3 days, so I could film the layout and runs when the kids aren't there and then the play time on one evening when we were using it.
I'll try to not go dark again, but I feel that until I change jobs my life is just a blur and it's scary that it takes us so long to organise some train fun days
(This post was last modified: 02-16-2024, 01:22 PM by bijomaru78.)
This layout took 3 evenings (if not more) of me adding, expanding and changing things to get the layout to the state I would consider complete and satisfying to run.
If I recall correctly:
Day 1 - building the first loop - clockwise with the switching stations in place - so already planning the other loop
Day 2 - adding the second loop, while making necessary changes to the first loop
Day 3 - Trying to add stops where we needed them and expanding the 'main station' area to add parallel tracks to allow separate lane for each train
Day 4 - must've been when I added the train yard, and made test runs, with more tweaks to the layout where trains were falling out of tracks due to some odd shaped combinations
Filming, at least spread over 3 days, so I could film the layout and runs when the kids aren't there
and then the play time on one evening when we were using it.I'll try to not go dark again, but I feel that until I change jobs my life is just a blur and it's scary that it takes us so long to organise some train fun days
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