• Pembroke: the saga of 622

• Pembroke: Flat Cars

• Cricut Shingles

• Pembroke: Turntable and Roundhouse

• Pembroke: Operations

This will be the MRH blog describing the construction of Canada Atlantic 622 in Proto:87.

Wish me luck!

I have been thinking that I need a side project while completing the heavy shop. Most nights, I'm not able to make progress on the woodworking as it's too late to run the table saw. Casting about for a little diversion, I thought about making some flat cars.

Perhaps there is no harder problem for railway modellers than shingles.  First of all, because we tend to have a bird's eye view, they are right up front and centre.  Secondly, it takes a team of workers about a week to re-roof even a modest building.  So, while you could install individual shingles, it will drive you cuckoo.  Even if you do install individual shingles, you'll never get them as straight as the real ones.

My blog post regarding building the turntable and roundhouse for Pembroke.

In which I explore questions of car forwarding, train dispatching, and so on.

In which I lose the plot.

Here I'll describe the buildings and scenery as they come together.

In which I muddle through construction of the staging yard...

In which I detail laying the switch at the north end of the siding, thereby completing track on the visible portion of the layout.