For the past 2 weeks I have been on vacation from work and have spent 6 to 8 hrs every other Day on completing my bench work and getting the homosote as well as my back drop up for my first section of my RR The Ridgway Engine facility. Next I'll paint the back drop and get the Narrow Gauge Yard ready for track.

 Joe pretty much said it all, I spent most of those two days either talking to potential advertisers and/or doing interviews with manufacturers. So no more video for today. Tomorrow much more of the same but we are visiting Craig Bisgeier's layout in New Jersey, a there and back trip from Hartford, to do a video for MRH. I am sure we will have some pictures also.

Signing off till tomorrow evening!

I ended up with my laptop connected to our big screen TV for the National Train Show and we need to leave it connected to the big screen TV since it took some fiddling to get it all to work seamlessly.

I'm posting this note on a borrowed computer, and it doesn't have all my software I use to prepare the images, etc - so I will be making brief posts (without photos) for now and come back in after the fact once the Train Show is over and I get my computer back to add more details and to add the photos!

Wow is all I can say about John Grosner's layout....It is incredible the amount of work on buildings and super details you can find on this layout....itr was well worth the visit.

Heeeeereees Johnny!!!!

Some more incredible models!

OK here are some more models!

This is a Digitrax UR91 (Weathered as only Tim Warris can do).

More photos! (Prototype or freelanced???)

 Here's the picture believe it or not!

And more.

Okay, today was pretty much National Train Show prep. I forgot and left my camera in the room when I went over to the convention center, and while I saw some pretty darn nice things in the contest room, including Tim Warris' Bronx Terminal, I didn't get photos of any of them.

One thing I can say about the Train Show - a lot of the vendors and whatnot are going to be prepping pretty late into the night. There were a lot of still empty or being worked on displays when I left around 5pm.

  Yep , I'm in Hartford too - only for a couple of days though, I leave again on Friday.

  I only got to Hartford at 5pm Tuesday evening - late enough that registration was closed and I was counting on my MRH polo shirt to reassure people I was supposed to be there when I went to a couple of clincs that evening.

July 8, 2009 - Today is the Layout Design SIG layout tours! I love going on the SIG tours because they tend to pick the "cream of the crop" layouts in a region. While the LD SIG tour is a self-guided car tour, it's a real hoot because the layouts generally exhibit great design characteristics.

I've been piecing together a quiltwork of what will someday become my Great Arizona Railroad adventure - if I do indeed decide to go down that road when I get to the fork!

And so here is the first segment that has recieved serious attention, enough so that now a complete layout concept has been completed.

Well Joe did post some photos on day 1 and 2, but Charlie and I were busy taping clinics and running around carrying camera equipment around from clinic room to clinic room. But today I got some time off so I took some snaps of the models in the contest room!

Here's Charlie working hard....VBG 

Here's our friend Tim Warris actually operating the Bronx Terminal Layout!