To All: This is a new blog. My name is Elvin Howland from Jacksonville, Florida (previously, Manton, Michigan). I run a business called Layout Concepts. I sell scratch built, kit bashed and kit built kits, paint and letter freight cars and build train layouts. I have a Facebook page called layout concepts that features my work in various categories. My layout is an HO scale double deck one that measures 11' by 21' and is controlled by a Digitrax system. I model 1950-1970 on the layout. The area modeled is E. St. Louis, Illinois. I chose this area on account of the variety of railroads ( 19 companies) that ran in my chosen era.I also have a large collection of early rail rolling stock,( before 1920), mostly scratch built. I have a collection of modern cars, also. But on the layout I only run locomotives and rolling stock from my chosen period. More later.

Happy modeling, Elvin Howland