Visit this 53 year old model railroad club. http://www.grandepacificmodelrr.org/html/ccmrc_la_.html  Club is in the process of a remodeling of large section of the railroad. 

The last article for the standard gauge portion of the Penn Western is based in the Harrisburg area. I recently completed a major reworking of the 7' X 12' section so that I could add a Conrail interchange and expand the Sn3 East Broad Top. There's a lot of "open land" for new structures to be modeled. The background scenery contains the Susquehanna River as well as the state capitol building.   

I'm using the blog here, to chronicle the traveling cars I've hosted.

First we'll see TWP 5658, a covered hopper lettered for The Whistle Post, another online forum. I hosted this car back in early 2009. She received a new set of trucks, as the ones on here were too tight, and fragile.

In November 4 other members of Model Railroad Forums, and myself, joined forces for a 5 car roundabout. The first car arrived today.

Here is the current status of the lower deck backdrop on my N Scale layout based in northern British Columbia, Canada.  I am going against the conventional wisdom of 'understated backdrops' and going for detailed sweeping scenes.  It takes many hours of painting but since my layout will be fairly small it is a worthwhile approach.   I would like visitors to remember my layout for the backdrops as much as the trains.

I picked up this little guy in a local auction - I had no idea what it was, and I simply bid blindly on an assorted box.

Turns out he covered my costs pretty well. You can see the original thread here.

The model was identified by another Forum member (shout out to Joe Brugger) as a Ken Kidder brass import, and it turns out he's right on the money.

So....I had a momentary lack of weakness, and put a bid at a local estate auction for a box of HO. I didn't look too closely, and fortunately I didn't bid too much.

Come to find out, I won it. So I went down and picked it up. So what did I get?

A CP gp38m and A CN SW, both Athearn blue box

Tyco? BN F unit and three freight cars along with a CN F and a Soo. All tyco or similar.

www.grandepacificrailroad.com Visit the Tall Timber & Santa Fe Page and go to TT&SF Story. Jim Lofland tells you all about this great layout.  Update also on the Santa Fe and Gulf.

Some will laugh at this (I did) and some will not.

Joef - better check it first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2umTTPFfiiY

Art

I was on a hobby shops Trek yesterday "317miles round trip" 8 Model Railroad specialties Shops in 9&1/2 Hours. A few of the Items I was looking for were decoders for 2ea 2-8-0 C-16 & 2ea 2-8-0 C-19 D&RGW light steam engines Soundtraxx DSD-101LC Decoders  for them & the RGS Galloping Goose #5  DCC/Sound card Tsunami TSU-1000 DCC w/Sound and 5 ea 0.78X1.56X0.31 Oval Speakers for all 5 engines and 14 differently numbered new Rolling stock by Blackstone in HOn3 as well as numerous accessories and books and DVD's.