My next entry is my nearly completed Seattle and North Coast Kato F7.  I have not done any custom painting in a very long time so I am pretty impressed it turned out pretty well.  I have some minor details to add such as a roof beacon, winterization hatch, and some MU hoses, and a decoder.  This was fun to do since no one has done a commercially available unit in this scheme in N scale.

Scratchbuilding an n scale car float apron

By Shawn Newkirk

My home layout is a hybrid of the old Seattle and North Coast railroad and the BNSF branch out to Anacortes, WA.  For the Seattle and North Coast segment I really wanted a static car float operation so I decided to try my hand at scratchbuilding one.  I already had a laser cut car float so all I needed was the apron to connect it to.  The process only took a few evenings and uses all commercially available materials.