Burlington Northern Mode
The few Athearn diesel locomotives I started collecting over the passed few months to keep me from going postal. After discovering just how intriguingly complicated constructing the above layout was, I knew I found something even more fun than gardening and rock hounding. After all the troubles and Youtube tutorials and the extreme penny-pinching and sacrifices I had at first during the first phases of this incomplete layout: random derailments caused by improper track alignment, manufacturing issues with one of the locomotives, getting garage sale vintage Tyco, Mantua and kit box cars, I can proudly say that I have trains on the brain!
From top right to lower left corners, Athearn diesels: (1) SD45 Burlington Northern #6416; (2) SD45 Great Northern #417; (3)SD45 Milwaukee Road #8; (4) GP38-2 Burlington Norther #2076; Gp38-2 Union Pacific #625.
The layout:
And of course, I just had to include a slightly dated video showing off my Milwaukee Road SD45 #8 in action.
And I have since added several more boxcars, hoppers and cabooses I have yet photograph and upload. But that is for next time. Right now I am in the middle of upgrading their stock McHenry couplers to Kadee so that I can uncouple the cars on the track without using my hand.
Today I went to Milbrae and bought a kit tree set from Tom’s Trackside Trains; I know I’ll go over there for more stuff to feed my new addiction.
