Hello to Rail Road Modeler's !!!

This picture here is a corner diorama that has survived from the previous layout, I plan on adding this into the new layout i am currently building, and designing as i go. 

I've alluded to this occasion earlier and now the time has arrived...

Wow - Long time, no post (here, anyway). I'm going to try to keep this MRH blog a bit more updated. I can't believe that the last post here was last February(!) But - work/life/etc. Interestingly, I can pick up about where I left off . . .

Given the previous discussion about the (relative) futility of true Prototype Modeling (and thanks again to all of you that weighed in), you probably won't be surprised that I decided to relax things - just a little - due in no small part to the influx of a number of beautiful structures, some fitting with my specific prototype and many not.

Here’s a shot of the current locomotive purchased by Cargill to unload unit soybean trains at their Gainesville, GA facility. They contract the work out with a company called Rail Serve.

Join me kicking off the new autumn and winter season with a journey through the miniature landscapes.
This mid year layout tour was filmed using 4 differerent HD-cameras with its own unique features to capture the miniature enviroments around the layout.

Finally got around to finishing the mountain scenery, river and tunnel portal. The river is plaster that had been painted and then covered with multiple layers of gloss medium. Turned out more convincing than I had anticipated. Bridge is the Walther Single track Truss, backdrop is from LARC Products and the tunnel portal is from Woodland Scenics.

Well, we finally found the house. It'll take a couple weeks for all the formalities to finish up, but it'll probably go through. In the meantime, here's what I've got for a trackplan. Control will be Digitrax radio with a few UP5's scattered around for the yard crew and hostelers to use. The area across the road from the roundhouse will be the GE lightbulb plant in Logan. The black lines across the layout represent the section joints.

Has a few personal issues and took some time away, so I am back and working on 3 months of posts and just trying to reconnect!  A new history blog post is in the thought process, and i am ready to roll.

Peace Bill

I would appreciate leads to sources for HO scale passenger car underbody details - parts.  

I have "inherited" four assembled 80' passenger cars from the 1900-1920 period which would be just right for the era I model.  They were partially assembled, painted and lettered from plastic kits, but the underbody detail was not applied.  I need to locate a source for the appropriate holding tanks, generators, refrigeration units and other details that would have been typical of these cars.