Download at: amodelerslife.com

Perhaps some of you have heard of the podcast - A Modeler's Life?  Lionel Strang started it a couple years, talking to model railroads about life, trains, and lots of (sort-of) related topics.

The current full episode this week features me!

http://modelerslife.libsyn.com/episode-85-steven-haworth

It's a 2001 blue box Life Like Proto 2000 EMD-BL2.

DCC ready (so I dropped a Digitrax SDXH166D into it) Replaced the lights with LEDs...

Time to run it.

*bump-bump-bump-bump*

Yeah... you guessed it... though it was still factory sealed, never opened, never assembled... there are some cracked gears.

Sonofa...

With vacation in the review mirror and the fall weather starting to get cooler, its time to get back to the layout.  It should be mentioned that I did get “sidetracked” and stopped at the Chicagoland RPM.  What a show!  If you ever get a chance to go this RPM, do it!  It was a tremendous amount of fun.  I got to see some incredible modeling and talk with a ton of people who know so much about railroading prototypes and models!  I had an absolute blast and felt a little cheated that I only spent one day there.  Next year…all three days!&n

Hello everyone. This is my humble start to an N Scale model train layout with DCC and KATO Unitrack. There is no prototype to be modeled, it's all a figment of my imagination. I named the layout the TuFF RR or the Texas unstoppable Fallen Flags Railroad because I enjoy so many railroads of the past and unfortunately most if not all are fallen flags. I will be using models from The Rock, MKT, MoPac and Frisco to start out with based in the 1978 thru 1988 era.

Some news from my modelrailway room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-pTynLrtvo

Markus

 Hi group, Im planning on buying a DCC  system and since I'm going to trainfest next weekend, I was wondering if I can buy one there at a good price or would ebay be better ?

Saw this over on another forum and thought is was worth sharing here. This person is making a display case for an engine with a not so typical method of scenery:http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/265813.aspx?page=1

Looks like I will have to live with it.  Hills painted,  On to bench work.

I should roll over it with blue and start again,  I have a deadline to get all the stuff out of or diner and back onto the new shelves being built under the bench work inside the train room.

Looks nothing like The South West or Arizona.  This is on the north wall.  Just under 27 feet of wall.