I was rummaging through some pictures of my past layouts to see if there were any scenes i wanted to recreate.. andf figured i would share them , with the blog site.. some re not quite finished .. 

Kids... must be the chief of police's kid.... who else would  have the B---'s to graffetti the side of the police station...

I have found a solution for the West end of the St J and LV that returns things to a continuous run loop on the Laundry room side of the layout.  A diagram is attached.  The switchback and stub ended siding on the duck under allows for work out of Morrisville.  The at grade crossing allows the yard in St Johnsbury to be used as both ends of the rr.

https://northcountrytrains.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/railfanning-the-sc-11-more-photography-practice/

Hello, I have taken some more pictures and made a new video.  I made some repairs to the chain link fencing and will start making some details and weathering to the warehouse.  

This morning I came upon a whole string of the cars below on a storage siding in Cedar Rapids, IA. The cars look a lot like well cars but have bottoms so they are more like gondolas. The are marked as MOW Equipment and appear to be brand new. 

Anyone have an idea what there intended use is?

Hey guys, so it's getting to the point on Nolan's layout that were ready to split the wiring into two broad booster districts, with that subdivided into power districts. My question is whether we can turn both the command station and booster on at once, or whether we have to turn on the command station on first and then the booster in sequence as we do with the club's Digitrax System. I never messed with NCE, so this is a little out of my knowledge base.

    Thanks in advance,

         Jacob

Hello,

What a difference a lumen makes.

One of the things I have wanted to capture was the look of an old single sheath boxcar in work service near the end of it's service life.  Like this one:

To that end I have been mulling over possible techniques to capture this look.  I liked the chipping technique that I have seen used very effectively on aircraft and military models, and decided this would be my way to do this.