My Pocahontas District layout models an Appalachian coal hauling railroad situated on the border of West Virginia and Kentucky. As you might guess, given the locale, I've got some mountains that need to be covered with a ton of trees. But how do you do that? I wanted a technique that would be fairly easy and quick, do so with minimal cost, but also look as realistic as possible. 

I am an avid listener of this podcast and was happy to participate.

The banchtime podcast is an audio-only program that focuses on building models. I liken it to the original Scotty Mason show. Anyways I am pretty happy how it turned out so check it out, please.

You can see them here

The Metaline Falls Railroad (MFR) continues it's celebration of 20 years of operation today with the unveiling of a brand-new logo. This is the first time the logo has been changed since the railroad's inception.

Last month I did some railfanning on my prototype, the CP Canadian Division. You can read about it here and here, and watch the video here.

This is the link to my blog, north country trains. Please look around and tell me what think. If you like, please follow.

You can see photos of our modular club layout, the A&LC here, here, and here, and a video here.

A couple weeks ago I went to the Clayton, NY train show.

You can see a video of my layout(before expansion) here, and photos and a track plan here and here.

Today, we took down our club layout, the A&LC. you can read about it here.