Let's go back in time shall we the year was 2002 at the Montgomery Alabama Union station are young model railroader who was attending a juvenile diabetes fundraiser didn't really care about the food or the games or his friends being there he was infatuated with 5 military trains within 6 hours going south more than likely heading to Iraq. Now it's fast forward to 2018. Sitting around at a milsim event. "airsoft war games".

Working on the alterations to Shippensburg Classification Yard today, the changes will allow local freights to be made up from an arriving freight from “the rest of the world” via Staging.

I haven't done much on the layout since the last update. The first module is still approximately 80% complete. I moved at the end of April but haven't started setting anything up yet. My new layout room is a very different shape from the rectangle I used to have, so I drew up a new plan in AutoCAD. Hoping to get the first module moved from my dad's house and start on more modules working westward this winter.

I always thought this trackside building in Hadley, MA looked interesting.  It is in severe disrepair and probably cannot be preserved.  I hope to make an accurate model to save a version of it. 

I did not do a lot of work on the layout through the summer, but I never stopped building stuff, specifically buildings. 
 

A couple of new houses for the town. Got to house the mine workers.

When I came back to Model trains, I didn't want to do european stuff again (I'm living in Germany). It just had no real appeal to me. So I started trying severel stuff, had a small venture into On30, until after a trip to Oregon I settled on the Port of Tillamook Railroad. The combination of the Pacific coast and the vast forest with steep valleys just did it for me. And, being a shortline, it's perfect for HO.

Today I recorded a new episode of News from my modelrailway room. These time entirely focused on my 009 Isle of Skye Railway.