Welcome to my blog of the Smoky Mountain and Southern Railroad. After many years of starts and stops and much frustration and indecision , I have finally decided to contruct a working model railroad in my living area. I hope that by documenting the progress of construction on this blog that I will stay motivated to actually get the work done. I can't even tell you exactly how many years that have passed since I first decided that I wanted to do this but it has been at least 10 years. I bought the cabinets you can see in the picture specifically for the purpose of building the railroad over them and using the cabinets as storage. At this point I have nearly finished with the benchwork and have the backdrop in place. It was probably 4 or5 years ago that I started the benchwork. There used to be a lot more but I tore it down and started over. The backdrop has been in place over a year or more. The cardboard squares that you see at random around the shelving are mock-ups of some buildings that will eventually be built. they are helping me in planning what I can actually fit into the space and finalize the track plan I will be using. Right now they are not in the actual place they will end-up and I still have more to make. That's all for now. In my next post I will explain how I got interested in the hobby and what has taken so long to finally get moving.
Welcome to my blog of the Smoky Mountain and Southern Railroad. After many years of starts and stops and much frustration and indecision , I have finally decided to contruct a working model railroad in my living area. I hope that by documenting the progress of construction on this blog that I will stay motivated to actually get the work done. I can't even tell you exactly how many years that have passed since I first decided that I wanted to do this but it has been at least 10 years. I bought the cabinets you can see in the picture specifically for the purpose of building the railroad over them and using the cabinets as storage. At this point I have nearly finished with the benchwork and have the backdrop in place. It was probably 4 or5 years ago that I started the benchwork. There used to be a lot more but I tore it down and started over. The backdrop has been in place over a year or more. The cardboard squares that you see at random around the shelving are mock-ups of some buildings that will eventually be built. they are helping me in planning what I can actually fit into the space and finalize the track plan I will be using. Right now they are not in the actual place they will end-up and I still have more to make. That's all for now. In my next post I will explain how I got interested in the hobby and what has taken so long to finally get moving.
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