Friday 27 January 2012

Conform or innovate

Isaac is still working round the battery train issues and while he's doing this he is building quite simple layouts. This one was a loop with three sidings. One for the repair shed, one for the engine shed and a siding for rolling stock.

He added a further siding to accommodate the battery train as it wouldn't fit the engine shed. I did like the way that the final siding looped under the viaduct. I think Isaac is enjoying the new viaduct for the options it gives him in terms of which arch to use.

This layout survived for a couple of days. But he dismantled it this morning and called for me to see what he'd built in its place. For the first time he had ventured out of the living room with a track. There was a long liner track that went from the living room, through the kitchen and was on it's way to the dining area. He was very pleased with this development. Sadly the practicalities of having a track the follows one of the main walk ways in the house was soon apparent and it became a bit of five minute flash in the pan. Hence why there are no photos.

Looking at the latter layout I wonder if Isaac was trying to work out how to have an innovative layout that had very few curves and sidings.

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