Track laying has begun

Sunday I was able to spend sometime working on the layout and was able to start on the monumental milestone of laying track......monumental only because it has been a long time coming. These are the two tracks behind the old mill supply building on North Ferry St.  On the prototype the location has seen some clean up work and new gravel in the track side parking lot, looks to be serving as another couple car spots for EQ Detroit as I've seen tank trucks next to tank cars spotted there.  On the layout I intend to use one as an off spot storage lead and the other more as a team track.  The old concrete loading dock will be used to load box cars with recycled cardboard and the gravel lot as a car spot for unloading plastic pellets to trucks.

Nothing earth shattering in the technique. I want this track to look as though it has seen zero maintenance in decades so it is wood ties with every tenth tie being a pc board tie glued directly on the foam base. Turnout is built using Fast Tracks printable templates and PC board ties.  Ties will be a dull gray color mostly covered in dirt and weeds.

Progress might be slow but at least this looks like progress.