A Coupler Lift Bar (Cut Lever) facsimile/analog used for 1 handed uncoupling during operations.

While I tried to get this video distributed through better means. It didn't make it anywhere.
If I wait any longer the video will lose relevance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2tMIZnlqDY

The operating scheme for the Sandpiper Bay Terminal is documented in the following blog; this will be the last one for awhile until I make more progress on the layout.

Operating Premise

Hi All,

I'm starting a couple of different layout projects in that I'm building for an N Scale focused hobby website I run (www.model160.com) and I'd like to start blogging progress here on MRH. In terms of updates, is it better to break down each post as a separate update? Or to do one large continuous topic where everything is in one place?

Finished off my latest LokSound conversion today. A Select Direct decoder with a sugar cube speaker in a Proto 2000 RDG GP30, this is the newer version GP30.

The walls are all painted, part of my bench work is now in so it is doodle time. 

I have tried CAD design for my layouts in the past, but I enjoy doodling ideas.

i have modified that technique by using my template and further modified the process by doodling on plexiglass over top of the scaled drawing.

The plexiglass technique I got from my wife who Doodles on quilts as she designs quilting patterns.

But enough about quilts.

Here are a couple of photos of some doodling.

As part of my preparations for the upcoming Railway Modellers Meet layout tour in May, I have started noodling around with some basic scenery to hide the raw benchwork that currently dominates the layout room.  My original plan was to hold off on building scenery on the lower level until the upper level was completed, but I doubt I'll get much of the upper deck completed before the tour.  So some basic scenery will be roughed in to give a bit more visual interest to visitors.  I'm sure I'll be making chang