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I've been hammering away at a representation of the Michigan Southern in Trainz:A New Era for about a year. Here, the MSO 907, a GP9 I commissioned from Jointed Rail, runs westbound from Sturgis to White Pigeon, crossing Klinger Lake Road. 

Whilst we are still in the midst of school holidays there hasn't been any time down in the layout to continue on with either the signal install and/or anything else on the layout.

There's a number of different model rr software products out there to create car cards and waybills for your model railroad, or pre-printed forms like the ones you can get from Micro-Mark that you fill in by hand.

But they're fairly easy to make yourself with almost any spreadsheet software. I used Microsoft Excel since I happened to have it, but any other spreadsheet software will have the same or similar features.

I wrote up more details on how I print my own car cards and waybills on my personal blog. Read more here:

You know while making this video I began to really appreciate what it does. When laying out all the projects I really do feel a sense of accomplishment. 2018 will definitely bring new projects and possibly some products.
 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3PbvNHYhOw

I'm slowly starting my first layout that will be sceniced and have a year-round setup.  After Years of collecting rolling stock, locomotives, and litrature I've decided enough designing already.  I have been building up my supplies from Walthers' yearly track sales and now I just need to build.  Each square is 12" so the room I have is roughly 11' 10"  by 13' 8" so this is what I came up with to give me around the room continuous running.

The design bug caught me during the holidays and I started to think about a one town very early 1950s layout. Though this concept has probably no chance to see the light, I find the process amusing and I always learn something while doing so. I thought it could be nice to share it. Funnily enough, when designing this project, I quickly stumbled upon James Six's own layout thread which share many common traits. http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/31700

For a bit of fun, at a recent exhibition, I tried to pose some photographs on my Freshwater, Isle of Wight, layout to try to match some real photos of the actual location taken 70 or more years ago. They show some irregularities, and focal length differences, but the main difference is the position of the buffer stop in the horse box photo. It is positioned correctly according to the Ordnance Survey map, but does not match the photographic evidence.

So, a few months ago, in a Photo Fun thread, we were talking about the Disneyland Railroad, and it's history...

Well, Toy Man Television just made this wonderful little piece all about the Disneyland Railroad, with a lot of history, photos, video... it's a wonderful little documentary short.

Six months ago I began my journey in the hobby, since then I read many articles that are against 8X4 layout, in a few lines I will like to share my experience and support that this size is perfect for beginners.

The first thing that I realize that HO is the most popular scale with the big manufactures, hobby shops and even in youtube. Also that a good layout required some basic element.