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Kelly Questions - Round 16: Let's not kid ourselves, you've been dying to hear another episode of the Kelly Questions and you've been dying to hear more from our very own Uncle Larry.

Well it doesn't get any better than this, Uncle Larry answers the Kelly questions.

So sit back with your favourite sniffing glue, a bottle of warm cider, a box of chocolates from last year's employee Christmas party and enjoy !!

Photography is a tricky thing. 

First, what type of camera you use demands different styles of operation. My friend Bob made a website with tips and tricks for digital and SLR/DSLR type cameras.

Bob has won many Model Railroader photography contests, with some of the most unique shots I have ever seen. Bob's style is to think outside the box. And I think you all will enjoy this website

https://sites.google.com/site/railphotog/

My latest scratch built structure for my HO CNW Peninsula Div. RR. is a 2 stall Diesel House and is located in the Ashland Yard area on the layout.

Card board mock-up.

Typical wall construction - measure, scribe, snap and glue back together.

Since Rick and others began posting their videos here It seemed a good idea to have a placeholder for using video in our models. My layout is far from complete and the scenery often varies from roughed in and painted to snow looking foam shapes or just plywood. Regardless, it is fun to see the railroad from a hum perspective. 

Please join me and post your trials and tribulations, YouTube links and set up's for the camera(s), and how you "produced" and edited the video. 

I put together a few modules that follow a standard of Trainz Modular systems they are not my creations but on the DLS following will be some videos and photos

Video of Daylight runby:

To All I am revisiting the SPD boxcar. This line was a Northern Pacific RR predecessor. I finally got around to weathering the car. Bragdon Weathering Powders was the medium used. Photo By Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

For those of you that have been following along with the progress on my Christmas diorama, be sure to check out my site for the Final Fotos! Yes, it's finally done and just in time for Christmas %^) I hope you'll stop by and leave a comment if you can. In the meantime, I wish you and yours a most wonderful holiday season!

I have decided to jump back into the hobby with both feet last month, after a nine year hiatus. Life is what happens to you while making other plans, I guess. This will be my ninth layout that I've built either myself or as part of a group. The most recent one was intended to be a shelf type layout around the walls. Made of MDF boxes that sat on standard double-wide shelf brackets. This only made it to the sub-roadbed stage before new jobs for my wife and I, plus two different houses put it under the landfill equivalent of the scrappers torch.