Dear model railroading friends.

We are doing some maintenance to our Consolidated Nickel Mines layout. We also did some repairs and improvement to our landscape, adding some plants. This latter operation went in line with our “zero cost” philosophy.

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Dear modeling friends.

Using pieces from our junk pile, we built (finally) our rail-cleaning railcar. To be noted, in our Consolidated Nickel layout, we have a 1.5-meter tunnel section, which is almost inaccessible. We have retrieved an old Metaltrain flatcar (a one-piece solid, heavy block of die-cast alloy). We have machined two pieces of thin stainless steel sheet (origin: old 3.25-inch PC diskettes), and installed them under our flatcar.