The East Baton Rouge Parish Department of Public Works (Mount Rainier Division) acquired several new pieces of equipment this week, thanks to a government/military surplus auction (the Laurel Valley and Ponderosa Northern cars are custom paint/letters for two friend's N Scale Layouts):

Although I model California railroading in an  “impressionistic” style,  I do try to avoid anachronisms and am making an attempt at kinda realistic operation. For now my pike has settled into the transition era, a decision largely driven by my need to fit in a Walther’s Union Station. 

As I have posted before, I work in Colorado, but my basement/layout is 500 miles away in eastern Kansas.  I have an 1800 sq ft basement for my dream layout (KCS 1981 in HO scale).  I have a workbench in my apartment in Colorado so I can do some modeling.  I usually get home one weekend a month, but have been home a week for the Thanksgiving holiday.  I use "domino" construction and moved my previous apartment layout to the new basement.  It was a two track main with some passing sidings and some switching, but was a "round-round" which became bor

The SP&S road crews kept complaining about a section in the runaround track that was causing air hoses to come undone putting the train into emergency. The City of Prineville Roadmaster was called out to take a look at the section of traffic under load while the SP&S was in town. It was disocvered that the heavier locomotives that the SP&S were using was finding a small section where the sub bed was insuffecient. The track was taken out of service and the MOW department got to work to correct the area.

I have just completed the Howard Fogg car. Converted from a Walthers City Car. See what you think!

 I can't figure out how to post pictures.

Dirk P Reynolds

comptrain2002@yahoo.com

Recently one of my beloved locos (the first loco I ever purchased) let out the "magic smoke" and no longer operated.  It was a U28b Proto 2000(tm) w/ DCC & Sound.  It was originally a GE demo loco #302 painted all black.  A good friend of mine (Bob) did a custom repaint on the loco in L&N gray (No 2509) and added weathering.  He did an excellent job and I definately want that loco running on my layout.

Oh great, it's wednesday before Thanksgiving and I thought it was time to wish everyone here on the MRH website to:

                                      Have a happy and wonderful holiday weekend.

Almost 7 months into the construction and building of my new railroad and im just now starting to get half a picture of what it will realy look like, the room 13'x 9' has been 90% completed i still have some sheetrock work to complete on the exterior of the room the electrical is 99% complete ( waiting on new breaker pannel instalation) and the inside of the room is 99.9% complete still need a few outlet covers, however i couldnt wait to start building my RR so 2 months ago i started the bench work for my lower level has been completed and about 50% of its trac

I guess you guys are tired of hearing from me since no one bothers to respond or comment on any of the things I've written lately, but I do need to apout or sound off occassionally so here goes.