So this is what I've got as a start to my track weathering. Note grey is only a base coat. By the time I come back with ballast, cinders, and add rust to the guardrails and the like, this should blend pretty well. I'll probably add some black and yellow-ish highlights to represent freshly creosoted and extremely weathered ties respectively. Anyways, enjoy and look for more soon. Sorry in advance about the one picture, still can't figure out how to turn images. Oy.

For the longest time I've used  commercial DCC systems, specifically Digitrax. I might still be using them today had they not drawn my ire by refusing to sell me a rubber keypad membrane that I figure probably cost no more than a quarter but that's water under the bridge now. I was at a point on my pike where I wasn't running many trains and I have a little homebrew DC throttle for testing anyway so I sold my Zephyr and moved on.

I am hoping to document the build of a Great Northern Historical Society resin kit for a weed sprayer. 

I posted this in response to a comment I had last night, and it really shows the extent of the scenery at this point. All of the track work is down and the railroad is operational. It took me about three years to get there, and was pure work - wiring, track laying and all is not my favorite. The track is Micro Engineering code 83 ande I hand built the turnouts. The bench work is 3/4" x 2.5" tall plywood grid on 12" x 12" centers with 1" construction foam over and 2" construction foam risers for the roadbed. Whew! Glad that's done!

As I indicated in the earlier thread, I am doing an assessment on a Rapido CN DCC ready RS-18 model.  The initial testing is complete.  The plan is to put the model through some stringent paces to see how it holds up.  This is only a sample of one, so it is for courosity interest.

I've never posted to MRH before, but I do get a lot of benefit from the publication and would like to start participating. I'll leave a few photos of my layout to start.

It's a freelanced California line supported mainly by coastal logging. It would have been located a little bit south of the California Western and routed approximately parallel to that line from Albion on the coast to Laughlin where it interchanged up with the Northwestern Pacific. The year is 1928.

It's been a while since I created a post here, but I've been busy building a switching module that can double as a small interchange when used in larger modular layout.

Today centred around getting the turnout installed from the Harrisburg East - Mainline.

Prototype diesel-electric locomotives use a diesel engine driving an electric generator to power DC (or more recently AC) motors wrapped around a single axle of a wheelset. The equivalent is not usually found in HO scale… until now. There is a story behind this, with a path leading in unanticipated directions. A “working” HO single axle traction motor can be built. This bit of experimental modeling starts here, but this is likely not the end of the story.

I have acquired a 134ft turntable from diamond scale http://www.diamond-scale.com/images/TS134.jpg that is based on the UP turntable form what I can gather. I am after Ideas on whom does a great 6 or so roundhouse, a cinder conveyor and the other buildings that would go nicely within the area.

As our model club is freelance and the guys interested in the turntable area model Santa Fe, UP, Great Northern and Southern Pacific.