This is where I will post my progress of my On30 layout. It will be a logging railroad that ends at a seaside town. This will give me plenty of modeling options. I know I want a Wharf scene. The rest remains to decided. I have a 17'x17' area in the basement with a possible 4'x8' area for a helix.

I have framed the walls and installed lighting in the ceiling. I have high ceilings so a mushroom design is in order. The next step is to install wall outlets after which I will be hanging drywall.

I finally got TS2010, and also finally, after all its updates and service packs, have it working, needed to reset my video card settings, but at least its not an unacceptable slide show!

Todays train is an old favorite, on my Animas Canyon route, the real Animas Canyon is located just north of Durango, Colorado, I have many wonderful memories of that area from when I was growing up.

Some steady progress over the last few months has allowed more trains to cross the Peace River on the N Scale Fort St. John Subdivision.   Northern British Columbia, Canada is a remote place and there aren't many trains, but here are a couple I caught crossing the bridge.

First a northbound...

I've finally solved, at least in a roundabout way, my camera /computer hardware problems and can upload pictures.

Like many other modellers who model mining and logging I wanted a MDC Climax on the roster. Mine ran as well as could be expected, but I wanted something better. A friend suggested using a 44T frame and drive, so I went asearching on the net. I found two sites, one a blog entry describing how the modeller made his conversion and the other a commercial site, Neither satisfied my need for simplicity (read no shell cutting) or the pocketbook.

Last year I had purchased one of the old Atlas Yellow Box RS3's, we all know how great a running engines these Atlas/Kato units were back in the day, that was the days before DCC and making everything run right using electronics, however, when I was giving it its initial shakedown running, seems something gave way, it started grinding its gears and going real slow all of a sudden, Hmm!

Another Saturday, another train sale at Dana's RR Supply, I managed to get my hands on an ABB set of Bachman Plus F7's in the old infamous Santa Fe warbonnet, I managed to spend more than I took in, (way more), my wife has decided she wants an N scale railroad!

It's been a while since we had anything worth saying about the Sudbury Division, but we can report we are still chugging away, though not with steam locos.  You may recall we were having issues with electrical pickup in our last installment (Tales from the Basin Part 2), and we had to work long and hard to get that under control.  Last summer we took every car off the layout and cleaned each of their wheels individually with cotton swabs and alcohol, cleaned all the locomotives and all the track from top to bottom.

I recently completed a shack for the foreground area "redo" by Hoovertown and since it's in a rual area it needed a little "comfort"  The first picture shows the outhouse in relation to the shack - not too far away, and not too close!

This is a closeup picture - all the comforts of home (there's a Sears catalog inside next to the seat).

 Hi All,

It was mentioned in my Track Laying & Scenery thread that I should consider installing the backdrop on the section of layout that I had started to put down roadbed and trackwork.  I considered a few options from masonite, plywood, to plaster.

In the end I have decided to use plaster for its ease of installation, painting, durability and cost.  So today I was stopped from another project due to rain and decided to buy the materials and tools needed to start the backdrop.