Photos of my 4-8-4-4-8-4 Garret NSWGR Hope ​this photo of my 4-8-4-4-8-4 reaches MRH

Added a short blog on weathering on a new covered Hopper the birthday bunny brought me a few weeks ago.

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Relief from all the political "noise." Progress on the railroad with the small hill and tunnel at the far West end of the railroad. Will be building and wiring out from there over to the bridge connecting both halves of the railroad.

Over the past month and a half, I have really not worked on layout construction but rather have been working at the Central Texas (Temple, TX), AMRE (San Antonio, TX), and New Braunfels train shows. In between, I have done some preliminary operations planning.  This consisted of finalizing the sequence of train appearances as well as creating switch-list forms and train location cards. 

Hi! Spent the day and made a video on the largest model railroad event in Sweden today. Enjoy!

After giving my layout a lot of thought, (in my job I have ample time to over-think anything) I have decided that the best thing to do will be toma. I have also decided that I will model in N scale using ntrak standards. I have therefore thrown out the idea of using the plan I was considering and instead just letting the layout grow. One of the biggest problems I was having was narrowing down what to model. I decided that with ntrak modules I can simply  build a module of whatever I have the fancy to model at the time.

Hi! :) This weeks tutorial is about how to make a prototypic weathering/ageing of the T44 diesel locomotive using airbrush and acrylic powder.

4 weeks after I started work on the station segment (see my MRH blog posts), it has now reached a level consistent with the neighboring segments, the maintenance facility and the town of Emsingen.