The ex-Rock Island depot at Atlantic, Iowa, now housing the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce, is a real landmark of my prototype, and the events of the last few weeks have led me a few steps closer to modeling it.  While I'm sure that completion is far in my future, I thought I'd document the initial planning steps and then come back to this post as I make progress.

More to come in the first post.

This video was shot from the Budweiser Parking lot that is now fully sceniced....

Finally finished up the first locomotive. Wasn't so sure about how it would turn out so before I stripped and painted one of my good locomotives I decided to paint an dummy Athearn Blue Box GP38-2 I had laying around. Turned out better than I expected so I added lift rings, grab irons, a brass horn, drop steps and MU cables. I also body mounted the couplers. One of my good friend was nice enough to bestow upon me a chassis which had the lengthened fuel tank and I scrounged up to Blomberg type B side frames. Since I was at it I purchased a TCS WOW kit for it as well.

Here my new layout in N scale "Monolith Valley" built in Bologna Italy

is a modular layout in 8 module 6'x14' in size

bye Giorgio

All that Traffic from the last video makes its way to the North Helix into Sparks meeting Traffic moving Westbound. In the middle there, you see how far we have come.