***UPDATE 10-12-17 Transformers arrived - painting them

***UPDATE 10-10-17 - Transformers & shelving outdoor storage (Page 6 on this thread)

***UPDATE 7/8/17 - Adding dirt and weeds (Page 4 on this thread)

***UPDATE - added LEDs to the dock area

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After installing some new LokSound decoders in my engines I decided it was high time to play! I set up three trains on the layout and just let 'em run around and around the mainline loop. Made me feel like a kid again, although my wife suggests I never stopped being one! (Ouch!)

Just for fun I decided to video some of the proceedings. It's nothing spectacular, but I hope it will in some small way share the fun I was having with the rest of you. 

Hi all

Well with some great feedback I'm starting my new layout, bench work has begun and I am taking a module approach to this build, not the kind that can be changed around like FreeMo but just so I can take a section and build it on the bench, you could say TOMA inspired but I started planning this long before I saw that.

which sound decoder should i put into my KATO dash 8-40CW engines they have an 8 pin plug in the top ill take some photos and post them.

These are some 20years old and are not ATLAS ones but edition 1 that kato did. I did have a dozen of them until i was recently burgled and these are two that were on my work bench getting some work done so they were saved.

Here are the sections in their present state:

Cardigan Jct Yard

Interstate I-694 overpass

Arden Hills Mn.

The Siskiyou Line 1 dismantling continues.

The "refuse pile" of materials is building up, so in the next post I give you the details on how I'm keeping "my head above the refuse pile", so to speak.

Mascoutin Valley Railroad March/April Update:

​TOMA!  TOMA!  TOMA!  (Toga! Toga! Toga!)

Hello to all,

 First off, friends call me wyatt,, handle I got from my working cowhand days.

About a year ago I decided to go in new direction from the stationary home layout to Free-moN sections. Not all sections are true Free-moN,, as they call it, it is a module,, numerous sections to depict a certain area. With the design help from others, this is the plan.

Thanks for looking, Wyatt