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Jim at BSME's picture

Extended: Berrett Hill trains small business Saturday sale

​Berrett Hill trains, a MRH sponsor, is having a 10% off sale of all their in stock touch toggle products.

Martin t's picture

Illuminate your model railroad

Hi! The LED-illumination for the model railroad opens huge possibilities for the result, but can also result in head ache if chosen wrong. Here´s 10 minutes that saves you from the worst mistakes..

 

splitrock323's picture

Diana-Lynn ore mine. Operations video on rebuilt trackage.

This past summer I redesigned and rebuilt 2/3 of my upper deck trackage. The yard and one of the ore mines. Here is a video showing a mine run to the new Diana-Lynn mine ( named after my wife) in Ely, MN. I had to fix this area on my layout before the OPSIG event MinnRail. It went well and now I can show off the fruits of my labors. 

duckdogger's picture

When Older Locomotives Come Out of The Closet

Older Proto 2000 E-Units Coming Out of The Closet (in a manner of speaking)

These processes have a broad application for whatever older locomotives you might choose to upgrade.

Looking for a Steam Powered Rock Crusher for the Yacolt Branch

This evening I posted a a new blog topic on the county owned rock crusher that generated traffic for various locations on the Yacolt Branch and Clark County.

http://yacoltbranch.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/the-rock-crusher-spur-genera...

I found an image this evening showing the rock crusher owned by Clark County and im looking for models that can be used as a starting to model this in HO.

Ron Pare's picture

An interesting trend

An interesting trend has occurred. I do a study of search trends on Google and Youtube twice or so a year. Tonight I noticed this interesting hockey stick, er maybe it's a L.

Murray River Bridge new layout construction end day 17 to 19

Hi All

 

Here is some video of my progress on Murray River Bridge.

The pylons are up.

 

GregW66's picture

West Haven Industrial Rwy. : Re-envisioned

I had posted and it was discussed a track plan for the West Haven that would include an around the walls concept not unlike the Heart of Georgia layout that was inspired by one of Trevor Marshall's achievable layouts he describes on his blog. As the planning progressed, I massaged it into something I didn't want to build. It lacked the portability I wanted and exceeded my thoughts of simplicity. 

JLandT Railroad's picture

New Railroad additions to the layout...

Over the last few months I have been researching the Reading's adjoining Railroads.

 

So after some careful consideration and looking at the addition of two more railroads to add to the operations of the layout, I have decided to add the following to the line-up:

 


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