I really need to remember to post here at MRH as well as on my separate blog.... Ah well - I'll try to be a bit more regular.

Hi there,

I am embarking on beginning a new layout.  I thought i had my concept nailed down and actually started putting up some benchwork but got some feedback from a few folks that has me rethinking things.  I don't want to get stuck in analysis paralysis, but also don't want to get half way done with benchwork and decide to change so I am soliciting some feedback from anyone out there that would care to comment!

So I'm new here.  Just Moved recently, dragging out my old HO trainset stuff from decades ago.  I'm into Milwaukee Road, especially lines west, as my father worked as an electronic maintainer.  Moved to Deer lodge, Montana in 1974.  Saw the last years of electric locos-little joes and box cabs-and survived the abandonment in 1980.

I'm slowly starting to resurrect my train layout.  I'm wanting to loosely base it on the WSS&YP that connected with the MILW at Ringling, and ran north to White Sulphur Springs.

One of my hobby goals for 2020 is to make more progress on structures, and I decided to start by trying to fill the largest gaps between existing structures today.  Job #1 is the abandoned Ready Mixed concrete plant (later found to be Wilson Concrete, but in 2001 this plant was acquired by Lyman-Richey Corp., parent company of...Ready Mixed!) just east of UP's Pool Yard in Council Bluffs.  Here are a couple prototype photos from September 2001 and June 2005, respectively:

Here are two separated routes run by the rr's.  The two are physically separate from the diamond crossing in St J to the turnout on the duck under (may not be shown).  From that point onward the shared trackage arrangement could be extended all the way to a side yard functioning as St Albans in the WRJ yard.  If extended to that length it allows the St J to operate in the prototypical scheme of Morrisville turns/crew swaps. The connection is a entry to the CV's Richford Branch at Sheldon Jct.  There are options to consider.

Hi.

I would like to show you how I paint and weather my plastic model stations and buildings. This is my first video in English. I am sorry if I didn't use any correct word.

https://youtu.be/8Po4Oe3cKFo

What do you think?

Thank you!

Happy New Year to you all.

Unfortunately work and illness has kept me away from a lot of hobbying, but I did manage to to paint up a few more figures. The last 2 I did today on a slow Sunday afternoon.

Hopefully this year will be better and I can get back to some railway modeling.

Hello,

during the christmas time and the first weekends in January a friend of mine held the so called Silvester Layout operating session during that time. The time period is set to 1919 just before the founding of the DRG (Deutsch Reichsbahn Gesellschaft, Impirial German Railway Society). Most of the layout is assembled with modules built to the FREMO N-RE standards. Enjoy the video.

Thus we start a new year...

2017 grew towards expansion into new skills and processes. 

My current 24’ long shelf layout is a lot of fun but I’ve been feeling the itch to expand. With a little furniture rearrangement in the layout room I’ve opened up another L-shaped space available to expand from the back of the stub yard.