Taking advantage of “Go Home/Stay Home” I have been able to make some progress on my Intermodal Yard. I have finished painting the caution and traffic lines in the yard and stenciled Traffic control points on the concrete pad. More details below.

An old Jimmy Soul song, "If You Wanna Be Happy" , tells us...

"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
So for my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you"

I asked the Facebook group Twin Cities Model Rails if anyone would be interested in a virtual layout tour? I was approached by William Sampson, another local modeler, to ask if he could help. William is a graphic designer and he is a natural with camera work and editing. ( Check out his two YouTube Channels )

We Both signed on for the first week's show with our friend Daniel Lindfors. It was received is a positive manner and other layout owners have been stepping up to show us their work via Facebook Live feeds on Friday nights. 

Welcome to my first entry for what will be the blog on my new Manns Creek Railway in On3.  I started build in On30 a little more than 10 years ago as a diversion from working in HO scale.  At the time I had built a fictional railroad in HO scale called the Roanoke and Southern, which was featured in the May 2010 issue of MR.  by the time my article was published is was firmly hooked on O scale narrow gauge.  Although if first started constructing models in On30 (O scale models with 30" track gauge) I soon widened the gauge out to On3 (O scale models w

If we learn from our mistakes, next time, we're a genius.

Our club exhibition layout is a work in progress and on one of the 16 modules we decided to feature a Bar Mills kit “Hunch Landing” (a small fishing wharf/harbour). 

The module also hosts one of the exits from staging and this needed to be concealed with a deep cutting/tunnel. 

Hello everyone, I have finished installing and detailing the road.  Also repainted and added details to warehouse buildings.  Next project will be making the electric poles more realistic and adding better plastic pellet silos.

Well I can say I screwed up on my Module 1 with one of my turnouts and you will see in my photos but everything will be okay I hope lol. Here are some photos of module 2 and 3 that are now One module.

It has been a while since I have posted anything, but there has been some progress.  Track is completely laid and wired, the backdrop is coming along and trains are running.  Some scenery is started and an operational scheme is being developed.