I'm always too optimistic. As feared, a bunch of Real Life happened for the past two months, and I've made no progress beyond tweaking the benchwork and lighting a bit. But it wasn't all down time as far as railroading is concerned: we took a three week camping trip around northern Ontario, ending in Cochrane for the Ontario Northland Railway Historical & Technical Society Convention.

On the way, we spent most of a week at Neys Provincial Park, on the beautiful Lake Superior north shore -- and right by the Canadian Pacific mainline:

We were camping somewhere down in the trees there. From the boat launch, we had a fine view of the bridge and the cliff-face on the opposite shore, where I shot a bunch of video:

As part of the ONRH&TS Convention, we took the Polar Bear Express to Moosonee (almost at James Bay). Here is the power ready for the return trip, with the Sons of Martha monument at right:

And on a tour to Kapuskasing, quite by surprise I got a view of an engine I happen to have a model of:

That's a GP7, ex-Algoma Central 168, then Mattagami 168, now the plant switcher at Tembec Pulp & Paper. Atlas happens to include the Mattagami scheme in their N-scale GP7 (which is remarkable: the Mattagami RR can't possibly be one of your better-known prototypes!)