Hey folks,

I'd like to share my freelanced home layout - the Cleveland & Eastern RR - with you.
It is built as a walk in layout and covers 25 sqm room.

Another rebuilt for my N-Scale Cleveland & Eastern Railroad got its finishing touches.

Base model is a KATO F7 A Unit. where I removed the engine room windows, as well as the lower lamp housing on the front. I applied some decent body works by cutting back some lower skirting. I also added a winterization hatch on the last blower.

Folks,

Like to share a little N-Scale how-to on making corrugated roofs out of aluminum foil.

Happy New Year 2017

Mike Holly

After I finished the engine shed, it is now time to finish off the rest of the service area scene at Elizabeth Oaks.

With a tweak in the general track arrangement I was able to have one dedicated track for fuel/sand loads and for caboose storage behind the two main engine tracks. Now I had to find the perfect place for the sanding tower to serve both engine tracks

The photo below shows the overall scene with a raw assembled Walthers kit.

I started scenic works on the westend section of Elizabeth Oaks nearly 3 years ago. I handled this section always as a test environment for some basic skills and techniques like weathering and ballasting the track.
While scenic work proceeded eastbound I felt more uncomfortable with the first section.
So I stepped up the plate and reworked the section throughout.

I did this LifeLike GP18 a little while back with a grey/yellow paint scheme, but somehow I wasn't satisfied with it.

So I decided to strip the paint a second time and repaint it this time in a straight dark green. I gave the engine a light weathering.

While I was working on this engine I upgraded the DCC to a sound-decoder SDN136PS from Digitrax, Inc.

Beside working on my room sized layout, I started a micro-layout project. The idea behind it is actually a contest entry more than having a second realm to play with.

Some of the progress photo made it to the WPF sections but here is a sum-up of some pictures :

I try to gather recent on going construction progress on my layout in this blog here.

While I was busy with other tasks on the railroad, I managed to get my focus on finishing the first section of the Cleveland & Eastern RR - Elizabeth Oaks.

There are several project waiting to be done. Among these I want to discard the "out-of-the-box" East-Grain Mill and replace the two Cornerstone buildings with one scratch built mill complex.

Photos below show the mock-up building

Last weekend we had a nice operation session on the Cleveland & Eastern RR.

While I was involved in the action, little to no pictures were taken. But we gathered some anyway.

Train MA-5 picked up some cars and is leaving Elizabeth Oaks heading east to Cleveland,OH (Staging). Local (mid left) waits for clear tracks to resume its switching job.

With 2015 nearing its 4th quarter, I think it's time to take a brake and step back to get an overview of the expansion project I scheduled for 2015.

While starting operation on my layout mid 2014 I found that I had too few industries along the road and drew a plan to get at least some more coal industries in.