Time for another upgrade for the layout tonight, reconditioned desktop PC with triple monitor setup.

Two screens running the JMRI Panel, and the third for dispatcher information - operations paperwork and the layout camera system.

Hello everyone! This would be my first post! My build is a small switching layout serving one customer. Thought I’d share a photo of a CP box car I weathered. Waiting to be swapped by B&M switcher LA-1 local, set in the late 1980’s in Lawrence, Mass. I’m still in the scenery fase and working on other details in between but I definitely need to get started on a backdrop cause it’s hurting my eyes not seeing one lol...Anyway hope everyone enjoys! And Happy modeling!

There have been some posts on several model railroad Facebook pages recently on lane widths for roads. I have been following these discussions intently as I am in the process of building an entrance road to my intermodal facility and my next project will be roads in a downtown area. 

Just changing over from HO guage DC. Looking to go to G scale deadrail. Hoping to install loco genie into my Bachmann bighauler 4-6-0. Anyone out there made these modifications? What should one watch for? Suggestions? Arnie.

You can ballast miles of track in minutes this way:

DAP WELDWOOD Dry Resin Glue ( avialable on EBay)

BALLAST   I am  N Scale:  I mix i part medium with 2 parts fine, gives a much more realistic look. The formula is the same regardless of scale.

MISTER, NOT A SPRAY BOTTLE, spray bottles put a stream of water out and all you want is a mist,  Optical shops have these, they are usually smaller bottles made for spraying eye glasses to clean them.  Big Box Pharmacy/Health areas probably have them.

In February, we put a bid on a house, and everything seemed ideal.....now after a month of stay at home, radio silence from the bank, and lack of human contact, I have just plain lost my mind!!!!

I packed most of our stuff in anticipation of a cross-country move, and now I am surrounded by my life in cardboard!

I put my tools and trains away, and thought we would be out of here by the next week or so, instead no news on our mortgage, our closing, and the rest of our lives. 

Just venting but I am nuts!

Boy this town is taking forever to get finished! Tonight I'm planning to print the decals and start adding signage. That is always an exciting part of the process because the scenes really start to come to life once the signs are added.

"Where I come from..."  Allan Jackson, country singer/songwriter

Friend of mine models armor and had some really realistic looking rust on his armor models. I asked what technique he used and he said real rust... 

This is the technique and method to make the rust. Also, I used an extra cup of vinegar and with a wet brush make a wash as well.