I originally started to lay the track for Gerlos around Christmas 2010! So it is great to find that I'm making progress with the layout again. Over the last week or so I've been taking some of the lessons I've learned and started to apply them.

So if you go back you can see the upper level having been cut and the track being stripped out.

So without further ado, tada!

The track is back, much better aligned than before, I used a massive one metre long ruler clamped to the baseboard to get it right. Now all the points have a dropper wire from the frog for eventual polarisation. Of course all the point motors still need re-connecting to the point decoder, but that's a minor job!

Next will be demolishing the fiddle yard so I can fit dropper wires there too...

On the upper level front, I've started to add some supports to keep the upper level flat, and to allow it to be attached to the main board in due course...

This isn't very visible so I haven't bothered with photo's...

However, on the realistic modelling front... I'm after a source of signs... Railways signs of Austrian origin, any clues as to where they might available?

A something or other sign (if anyone knows please let me know what it means):

A crossing sign:

And I guess this will have to come from the Austrian Railways Group (but I think it's striking to put most of the time table on a massive sign):