Telegraph Poles(2) - Garage Layout

My empty war game table makes a suitable place to let the paint dry on the telegraph poles prepared for the garage layout....

Poles placed on the line-side of the garage layout, at about 2ft intervals (scale wise ideally should be ~2yds, but the curves are tight and I like it better with them close together :) ). With all in place, time for a train; picked the breakdown train for a run ....

Hmm next thing ? perhaps signals ...

Telegraph Poles(1) - Garden Layout

 Picked up a couple of Bachmann telegraph poles off Ebay; quite reasonable plastic mouldings. I painted three with the insulators and bases a light grey. These have been put out on the garden layout to bring a bit more visual realism to the station, signal box and halt. 

I'm not decided on whether to put telegraph poles line-side on the garden layout, I need a way of holding them in position in the ground.

However I will paint up sufficient to put onto the garage layout.

Faces On (2) .. The Steam Locos.

 Was stuck for a while on suitable 'face plates' to fit to the steam locos; to the rescue - plastic packaging in the form of the tray that had held some garlic dough balls (yummy !).  The depression to hold the dough ball was just the right diameter to fit over the loco smokebox door.

The steam engine line-up

plus the tram loco as well...

Had a running session on the garden layout.....

As it got too hot outside, headed into the garage for shade and to run a different train ....

Faces on ...

I wanted a 'Thomas the Tank Engine' style option for running sessions, rather than buy the Bachmann engines and rolling stock I decided to add faces to the locomotives I had.  I sourced some suitable face images off the internet.  I used the same scheme  I did for the face I use won my tram loco; the face printed and stuck onto a rectangle of cardboard, held in place on the loco with some blu-tak.  Diesels have been done, still tinkering with the steam loco ones to get best look and fit.

Diesel line-up

Orders for the day from the Controller...

One of the diesels at work with a tanker train ...