Nothing to show pictorially yet, but I've finally started getting the layout into proper shape. Instead of a couple of short loops mabye
35ft long I'm laying down a double road (with some four road sections) which will give a continuous loop of twice round a 12ft x 15ft rectangle, plus branch lines, a decent sized station, works and loads of sidings. There are tunnels! There are bridges! There are 1 in 60 gradients! (should be OK, as long as I re-wheel some of the older stock with Hornby metal wheels).I think it will be a couple of weeks before I can run a train over the track - getting the gradients right is painstaking but worht doing right. I might even treat myself to some catch points.
For noise abatement reasons I'm using foam underlay, which is a bit naff. Bits of the layout go over Pete's room, and he's only seven, so there is a need to keep things quiet. In a few years I'll ballast properly, though.
I've found a supply of very fine 1.5A wire which I'm using to put power on every 1 yard length of track, and of course the points will all be powered. Not got the diagram for a mimic yet, thobut; maybe I'll have to work it out myself. It'll do me good, resurrecting knowledge from my degree.
I can hardly wait to get it all running :-)
Guy