Use your phone, smart phone or tablet to take pictures on you layout? You don't need to snap the picture just use the the highly magnified screen to check details, track alignment, etc. If you have an assisted light app turn it on first and it's like watching a wide screen TV. Think of the possibilities.

Hopefully the above picture got your attention! Getting to the age where 'going under the layout' is no longer an option I came up with the solution shown below. After removing rolling stock it takes only a few minutes to flip to vertical, that includes roling out the racks stored under the layout. In updates to follow I will post additional photos of details and progress to my N Scale Mooers Junction Railroad.

The Concord Model Railroad Club is having it's 29th Annual show this coming Sunday, August 17th, 2014.

The Concord Model Railroad Club http://www.trainweb.org/cmrc/ has a permanent location in Penacook NH, just north of Concord NH

I recently added 28 feet of soffit to my N Scale Mooers Junction Railroad. I constructed one 13 1/2 foot section ( weighing 22 lbs) with a truss assembly that lets me rest on my backdrop on one end and molding on the other. The other 15 foot section uses no framing and weighs less than 10 lbs. This also is constructed without attaching to the apartment walls.

Go to You tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65rGBDr_9CE

The Concord Model Railroad Club http://www.trainweb.org/cmrc/ in Penacook NH, just north of Concord NH models the B&M from South Manchester to White River Junction. http://www.faracresfarm.com/jbvb/rr/bmrr/nh2_1977.png

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The Concord Model Railroad Club is located in Penacook, New Hampshire. For over 25 years they have existed promoting model railroading by attending events and displaying their large, modular, HO, layout at several shows along with at their own show held once a year in Concord NH.

Just came across some roundhouse details in an unsuspected place. At about one hour and twenty minutes into the movie 'In the heat of the night". Some Gulf Mobile and Alabama GMO power and other RR shots throughout the movie.

The chase scene shows some good interior shots of service pits, timber bracing and even a safety sign. These shots are interesting to me as I am scratch building my N Scale roundhouse for the Mooers Junction Railroad.

On a Gatorboard® based insert for my turntable and roundhouse. You know how I love my Gatorboard!

These are some pictures I use in my Gatorfoam® (GF) clinics. My clinics revolve around my experiences with using GF for firm, lightweight, mostly benchwork and control panel uses.

Dave Myers is nice enough to lend me some of his actual HO models to bring to my presentations. Dave has won  awards for some of his work, including 1st place at the last NER meeting in Syracuse, NY, for his Johnson Woolen Mill diorama. When you see the picture below notice, that with Gatorfoam®, dioramas don't just sit on the shelf but become part of the layout.