Mocked up where the lumber yard will be going and decided to add a little something fun. A sliding gate. Now please excuse the crudeness of the gate and the fence. This is just a mockup to see how it might look. Couldn't figure out how to upload a video to this site so here is a link to YouTube.

Https://youtu.be/a7ILDFckP5U

I need a drawbar to replace a broken one on a Walthers Heritage Steam 2-8-8-2 mallet locomotive. Does anyone have any idea who has or sell parts for these locomotives?

Thanks

Take the 2 boards pictured below, download the efforts of Gregg E. Berman, the creator of DCC++:  https://sites.google.com/site/dccppsite/, add 2 wire jumpers and you have a DCC base station that can be controlled with multiple throttles directly from your PC. It will also act as a $9 JMRI to DCC hardware interface—really!

Added some rain covers over the loading doors and then a little weathering....okay a LOT of weathering. Maybe a bit too much but I wanted the building to look like it had been there for many years. Through many years of rain, snow, hail, sunshine and winds. May have to come back and remove some of the powder.

Don't know if anyone out there still has one of these. The "Hustler" came out around 1959. It was just about useless because it ran at the speed of sound at almost any throttle setting...

This week I'm looking at how to model road markings.  Really simple but they bring the road to life:

Kathy

Introduction:

The Wetterau Food Services Micro Layout was completed in February of 2016.  Layout planning and construction began in 2014.  I am currently enjoying operations on the layout, and wanted to share the steps I followed in building this micro layout here on MRH.   I  have learned quite a bit in building it, and hope you will find it informative. 

Tom Conboy 

My Great Western website hasn’t been updated since 2012.  I guess I’ve been too busy modeling and operating to spend much time on the computer (except to read all the excellent postings here).  I’ve been corresponding with various people and have gotten tired of apologizing for no updates.