Seeing Caboose 14's outstanding looking paper mill, I thought I'd sneak in with an HO pulp mill I've been scratchbuilding.  I currently don't have room for a layout, but am building the mill, piece by piece, and storing the individual projects until I can finally bring them together in one module.  I originally named the mill for the fictitious Johns Bay Paper Corp., but after seeing another model that was artfully decorated with realistic Georgia Pacific signs, I decided PBP was going to be bought out by Crown Zellerbach (if for no other reason than because I l

i have purchased a few of BLMS modern block signals and i have been needing some help on hooking them up to a tortise switch machine. i am wanting to run them in series withthe switch machine so that when the switch is thrown it willchange from green to red and vice versa. when asked on how to do this i was told to use resistors that where specified and to follow the diagram for them. well the signals dont come with instructions or a diagram to follow and also where to i get the risitors needed for these signals.

Boomer Flats is my homage to the Overland Route crossing of the Sierras.  It's a town not unlike Nevada City, Ca or even Dutch Flats but of course totally fictitious.  The mainline passes through town and then exits the layout through a tunnel that passes through the backdrop into a staging yard.

I have had some requests to include a how to about the operations functions of Easy Model Railroad Inventory. I will be quite honest; I started out developing an inventory program to be used for insurance purposes. You’ll notice the word operation does not appear in the program name. The title is Easy Model Railroad Inventory. Some of you, I have noticed, like to refer to it as EMRI, which I actually find flattering, though I have not gotten used to it yet.

I started mocking up another structure on my railroad before the long weekend.  It is a rail served commercial printer who receives newsprint in box cars and ships finished materials via truck (not modeled) and rail.  My idea for the structure is loosely based on an old factory near where I lived (sorry, but I don't have any pictures but here it is