Since the beginning of the year, I have been working on adding another locomotive to my shortline fleet.  After much thinking and deliberation, I decided to model a proto-lanced South Omaha Terminal GP9.  This blog post will go through all the major steps of this locomotive project:

I recently stumbled on a prototype photo in my late 1980s era that inspired a slightly new direction for the layout, while keeping the physical layout itself the same: Rail Car America C415 #423:

This blog details the painting, decaling, and weathering of a C39-8E for the SPSF that will have DCC and sound for operation on the Meadow Subdivision.

This blog details the custom building, detailing, painting, and weathering of a Kato GP35 for my fantasy SPSF model railroad.

When I converted my DCC system from Digitrax to NCE in September, I decided to completely do away with the LocoNet system, which included my Logic Rail LocoNet fast clock.  I don't have any signals or anything else connected to LocoNet, so that was an easy decision.  My idea for the fast clock replacement was to use something else that wasn't dependent on or linked to my DCC system.  At first, I was planning to use the JMRI fast clock on my computer and eventually purchase the Iowa Scaled Engineering fast clocks.

A couple weeks ago, I embarked on yet another kodachrome repainting project for my proto-lanced SPSF Railway, this time an ex-SP SW1500.

What follows is my personal journal through all steps of this project.

Over the past three weeks, I have converted my layout DCC system from Digitrax to NCE.  What follows is my personal experience on the conversion for a small or medium size layout.

This weekend I started a powering project and thought it would interest fellow modelers on this site, so I will post the steps here as I go along.

My last layout tour was November 2015 and a few things have changed since then, so come along with the SPSF office car special as we tour the Meadow Sub!

Photo journal will follow below:

This is a blog post covering an HO scale locomotive detailing and painting project for my fictional SPSF Railway.