YouTube video of the layout early 2012 (~4 minutes).
Started in 2010, a weigh station and a sugar refinery plant have since been added, also more trees and sugar cane stalks (now 3000 plus). All buildings are made from 1/16" styrene with roofs, made from K&S corrugated copper roofing.
This is a manual layout ie turnouts are wire in tube operated connected to toggle switches wired to the frogs. Locomotives are controlled by Lenz DCC system. Locomotive #1 has a power storage unit built in for smoother running. Locomotive #2 still has to be modified to look identical to #1.
Buildings do not have an interior yet with the exception of the boiler house, which is partially done.
The backdrop was custom designed by my sons to give this small layout a feeling of grandeur. The working unloading facility needs some more engineering in order to get the unloaded cane inside the mill.
Future plans are include making a bagasse processing plant, some small storage buildings, an lot more trees and scenery, and extending the track to create a continuous loop from the cane fields to the mill.
last updated: 21/01/12.