Since getting all the base level scenery on my pike done, I've turned to a different phase of construction. I have no real plan made yet except to make "detail passes"  at certain areas. Here the detail is trees and I think the pics show what a marked difference they make.

I've said in previous blog posts that IAIS's MOW fleet includes some real gems that I've been looking forward to modeling, and IAIS 9719 is definitely one of them - an ex-ATSF PS-2 covered hopper converted to an open-top ballast hopper with Morrison-Knudsen ballast discharge gates.  In this post, I'll walk through the kitbash and weathering.

Here are Erik Rasmussen photos of the prototype:

https://northcountrytrains.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/some-work-done/

This week I installed a light switch to control the power to a staging track. It works great, so I’ll be getting more the the other tracks.

Hi! This is an inspirational video I made to attract more people to get started with miniature modeling. Not too many trains in this one, but water has a magic attraction to the general public.

I have invested in some Roomettes interiors with lighting for two buildings. I will start with the apartments as they are close to my just plug controllers. Doing a test on the first four rooms.

At the beginning of the year, I picked up an Air Eraser to fix up a botched renumbering job after reading comments in another thread.  It worked great at removing the factory lettering on an Athearn Blue Box locomotive using baking soda, until it didn't...

I put it aside until recently when I wanted to remove the lettering from some Walthers Superliner cars.  It worked a bit, then it didn't.  I searched the forum and internet for any helpful tips, and got it to work great, and then it stopped working altogether.