For those that follow my blog and website, here are recent photos of what both sides of my layout expansion look like today:

The cut down building is now roughly assembled. Have roof work to finish and signage to create. All the pictures I have seen of the prototype have a banner across the front with their name and incept date -- 1835. And a few have a corner roof sign. The windows have been filled in with images from the actual structure taken a couple of years ago on a sunny day. So the reflections are of what is actually across the street. An interesting structure now being torn apart for some developer condo fantasy. 

Hi! It´s that time of the year when it´s time to make a stop and look back the progress made over the last year and make plans for the coming year. Join me on the tour!

Hey everyone, here the link to the latest layout update video. Sorry, I haven't gotten around to it sooner, but this should give you an idea what's up. And yes, you'll notice in the update the short in my Spectrum 2-6-6-2 is fixed. I took photos of the rest of the process, so I'll get those up eventually. Anyways, thanks for watching and a late Merry CHRIST-mas!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbOUmVjQtLo&t=87s

Hey everybody, I'd like to announce the start of bi-weekly Trainz Livestreams on my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCz15FW4w3U page. If you're not familiar with the Trainz line of simulators, then this is a great opportunity to find out!!! And if you are, well then you already know what you're in for. So come along and see what Goose in The Caboose Productions is doing in the real of virtual modeling!

I finally held the first official operating session on my N Scale Arizona & California Railroad on Dec 15, 2018. The session consisted of a two man crew switching the town of Blythe on the branchline. We only ran one train, the Blythe Local, but it took the crew about 2.5 hours to run the job, plus about half an hour of work before moving the train getting familiar with the trackwork, writing their switchlist, and prepping moves. I'm really glad they took the time to think ahead and didn't just grab the throttle right away.

I have been working on my layout. You can see the photos here.

The Wilmington Marine Terminal wharf is making progress.  The walls are a design based on pictures of P&R wharves in the Pt Richmond area (just up the Delaware river about 50 miles at Philadelphia) and its decked with wood planks.  Two steel slugs hold the bulwark against the benchwork.  

I also have been working on the float bridge, adding two housings for the lift machinery, recycled from a New River Mine conveyor and pieces trimmed from a steel mill building.  The bridge sits on a foundation of a lath core with wood dowel pilings.

Hi there fellow modellors.

I'm starting out a new layout in On30. I've been looking at waybill systems that can be as simple as possible.