This afternoon & evening has been spent trying to get the physical track work design from the layout onto a fascia panel that flows, makes sense and incorporates all the turnouts so that it will function properly...

Below are the segments of track work that needed to be added to the fascia panel for Lancaster Junction.

Every year around the 4th of July, the Illinois Railway Museum hosts a Traction Weekend which focu

German manufacturer Lemke has just brought out a collector's model of a Berlin S-Bahn car of the series 481.

The 3D printed Union Station project is essentially completed.  The slide show video above gives an overview of the project details & costs (approximately $86).

I had 4 days off work for the 4th of July. So along with working on up grading my operating paper work (This will be a different post or maybe a article). I did some up up grading on the East River Coal & Lumber Co. in the town of Green Bay, WI. Mostly I added sand and gravel to the parking/loading area and additional weeds/bushes etc. See the before and after pictures below.

This is the before:

​We have embarked on a rewiring of the entire layout that has 12 separate blocks. It has been in place for over 20+ years at the Western Districts Model Railway Club.

The main reason is we want to declutter the panels so that we could see what we are doing and move closer to DCC control.

Below are two pics of the first part of the rewire. I will get some pics of the layout and the inside 

I am after a way to get wireless Arduino remote train controls. I am looking at using an NRF24l01 with two Arduino mini. Now the WDMRC has 12 sections (2-3 years away from complete rewire to have DCC ) these are an interim solution. 

I saw this video and it is a starting point i think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c0t8PBArvk

A couple of weeks ago, I visited the FREMO regional meeting at Hanau near Frankfurt. I made a video during my visit. But I had to remove the first one because of the bad quality.

Here you could see the new version.

I have been updating scenery and track work on my EK subdivision. This is the front area of my scrap yard. After 7 years, updating was necessary. Static grass wa snot used originally, but does seem to add a lot.  And yes, since I model the 90's..that old truck needs some rust !!

We unveiled the working ProtoThrottle at this year’s St. Louis RPM, and from all indications modelers really enjoyed it.