Fort George is an OO gauge model railway layout loosely based on Fort William in the West Highlands of Scotland. It's my first ever attempt at a model railway layout, and like many layouts was started during lockdown. Progress has been slow, but it's now starting to look a bit like a model railway, so I thought I'd share my progress. The time period that I operate is from 1950's BR, to BR Green diesels, BR Blue diesels, BR Sectorisation and the privatisation period right up to the modern day, depending how I feel.

There's a handful of photo's at the start of the video, which highlight the most recent developments, before I run a train on camera for the very first time!

1) Ballasting the track (my first ever attempt at this), plus putting down a small amount of foliage in the track area.
2) The farmers cottage garden has had some attention over the summer, with some flowers being planted.
3) One or two of these flowers have spread into the neighbouring moorland.
4) DCC Sound fitted Accurascale Class 37 37043 Loch Lomond in BR Large Logo Blue arrives at Fort George with an MOD munitions train, which it runs around and then shunts into the MOD siding adjacent to the small military logistics depot on the layout for unloading.

Everything you see is very much work in progress. I may do a proper introduction video for the layout with a voiceover in the future to explain a bit more about how it came about, why I chose this area to model, how my layout differs to the real Fort William and the traffic on the line if this video is well received.

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