My Previous Hi-Rail Layout

If you have been following this blog, then you saw how my toy train layouts evolved from smallish to large.  Now I am posting pics of how the large toy train layout evolved into a large hi-rail layout.  This hi-rail layout was torn down by me last May and I have been working steadily to rebuild a new and different hi-rail American Flyer layout.  Here are the pics of that previous hi-rail layout:

Some serious mountain building!

I experimented with bird cage litter as ballast.  Fair results, at best.

Still firmly into my DC phase with conventional block control.

I think you can see that there are elements of a toy train layout and elements of a hi-rail layout.

Here are some of the ('niff, 'niff) final pics of that hi-rail layout.  The quality isn't too good, but you can see what I was aiming for...

Here are a couple videos of my previous hi-rail layout in it's final stages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVk7ugzEwYs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yb0UNZyMUE

I hope you have enjoyed the "story" I tried to tell this holiday season.  On Monday, I will resume building my current hi-rail Flyer layout.  I hope to complete this project within the next 6 weeks!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!