This week I have been fixing a persistent problem that has been bugging the layout for around the last twelve months.

I completed the build of my Dolores flour mill, and added lettering using dry transfers (my first attempt with those).

Details and lots more photos here:
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/01/dolores-flour-mill-and-dry-transfer.html

I recently competed a new kitbash detailing project. I never was a keen fan of the Kodachrome paintscheme, but as I model the SP in the 80's, I cannot get around them and needed to have at least one on the layout, so I used a Lifelike Proto2000 GP9 as the basis for this project. 

Here is the end result , prior to weathering etc.

I am building a Fremo module of a Canadian grain handling facility.  Not modeling any one in particular but using details from several.  However I am struggling to find some of the trackside details, like these hand thrown  switch machines in 1:87 scale.

This week I'm looking at how to make plastic look like aged wood.

Kathy

After repairing the double slip in the yard, I finished reconfiguring my power districts and made a few minor (I thought)  changes to the Loconet plumbing. Ha! When I powered things up, not so good. All of my occupancy zones reported occupied... ooops. Shorting the track in various places made the PM42s trip -- so that was ok. Started checking things -- assumption always is that a new cable was bad... well, I had made a few new cables and changed a couple of existing ones. Got out the little tester and saw right away that railsych was missing on both branches of my network.

This blog details the painting, decaling, and weathering of a C39-8E for the SPSF that will have DCC and sound for operation on the Meadow Subdivision.

Keeping with my theme of starting but never finishing modelling projects, I have started work on a resin BGR Group kit of a CN/VIA passenger combine.  These started life as colonist coaches in the teens and 1920's when Canadian Northern (a CN predecessor) ordered a pile of these cars on the expectation that immigration to western Canada would continue as it had in the pre WW1 period.  This didn't happen so many of the colonist coaches were rebuilt into combination passenger and baggage cars for service on secondary passenger trains and mixed trains.  

Norm Abrams always said, "you can never have enough clamps." I would agree.  Especially when building spline roadbed.