This is the second train ride using the Cube+ camera on the N-Scale ATSF Paradigm Division. Once again the camera is mounted on depressed center flat car but this time the camera is looking backward.  The train is led by a consist of Kato F7 ATSF freight (cigar band) engines (A-B-B-A) with non-sound decoders installed followed by a track cleaning car and then a depressed center flat car with the Polaroid Cube+ camera mounted looking backward.

This is the first instalment in how to model a tarmac or asphalt road.

It's nearly 2:30am here in Missouri, as I start this, so the title of this blog entry is quite literal.

A little scenery makes a big difference.  One of the goals of this layout is to get a little scenery down at the same time I get the operation going.  All my previous layouts had the scenery wait while I focused on large swaths of benchwork and track.

I think the 30 minutes roughing in the tree line on the backdrop and the afternoon making the trees was well spent. 

Here is the Wilmington area with the fascia under construction:

Here are some more photos of the bridge from the previous entry...these show the bridge with it's first coat of black paint and before the deck and track was installed.

GW

The FICT now has a "standard" boxcar style. 16' long, wood-framed, inside-framed boxcar. Mind you, it wasn't until I took this pic that I realized that all three are even-numbered... Still, three boxcars, all built in a similar style. This style is the most modern version of the line's wooden boxcars, renumbered 140-169 by the new owners. There WILL be a "steel" boxcar as well, eventually, which will be numbered 170-199, and then fill gaps in the existing run as modern steel boxcars replace older cars.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQRlfkcEbuM

Well it has been one year since the narrow gauge Horseshoe & Cottonwood was started.

Hi first time posting here so I hope this works.

I've been working on an On30 railway that will be built as a series of modules and will be installed in a future train room/studio. 

The projected mainline will have 2 through truss bridges, one is a foreground structure that will be scratch built from Evergreen Styrene and Special Shapes as well as other parts suppliers. It will be approximately 86 scale feet long and will be similar to the Silverton's truss bridge across the Animas River in Durango, CO.  

Hello everybody,

Sorry I was not able to get back to you all and give an update, I have been on business and my kids have had chicken pox!!

I have finally been able to light the layout using a normal fluorescent tube from a local DIY store. The building on the left hand side will hopefully be starting soon - I have put it off for a very long time.