It's a new year with new opportunities.

Tonight I put up  a couple of the sections for my station. They haven't been up since I was in Bergen in the beginning of october.

Hi,

It's been a while since I last added to my blog, but I have made a little progress, the backscene on the top level of the layout is complete along one side, and I've dropped down one level to start on the next level down. The scenic work you can see from the pictures I've posted, what has also started since last time is that I have started an operating group to run the railroad. Operating Groups are rare in the UK so I decided to start my own, all being well our first meet will take place at the end of March, and I'll add details in my next blog.

I have built a searchlight in N-scale from TrainCat. A bit tricky to solder, but the result is very nice.
To this searchlight I have written a program to my LocoNet decoder that emulates the switching between the different aspects.
You can se this in the film, but it looks much better in reality since my camera is not so good.

I went ahead and bought the exact same Dayton blower as described in your blogs of November 2008, and am getting ready to build the spray booth in the corner that I set aside for it in my work area.

Since it's been over a year now that you completed your little box, what can you report about it?  Still happy with the suction and dust control?  Any changes in the light system or the glass?

Any other words of wisdom you can pass along with over a years' worth of spraying under your belt?

Pat Flynn

KC MO

It's time to bring out the M-1 gas-electric. It's usually run once a year on Fall Spectacular weekend.

The M-1 pulls up to Orbisonia Depot.

We're heading out past some hoppers.

If you would like to see more of the scenery in the mountain area, please check out my video on YouTube:

Thanks for looking!

Rick

Welcome to the Richlawn Railroad.  The Richlawn Railroad is a HO scale freelance layout set in the 60's & 70's in the Kentucky area and features the Louisville & Nashville railroad.  I grew up in St Matthews, Ky, a suburb of Louisville with the L&N tracks only 200ft from my house.

While I was at a local swap meet earlier this month I ran into a guy who was selling bundles of a years worth of MR for $2 a bundle. Not bad for 12 issues.

I grabbed the one from 1992, since that was a date I know I wasn't in model railroading and thus would not yet own any of those issues.