Here we are another set of photos:

I will use this new posting for continuing my build thread.  The prior start had lots of photos in the main entry before I knew better.

-Ed

Here I am near the end and able to show off my haul I came in with $108 and am leaving with zero exact. The first thing I picked up was an older Athearn Special Edition SW1000 and Caboose set for $40 and found a decoder for $15. That is currently with Ken who offered to do a decoder instalation.

So I talked to Ken Patterson at the convention today (great guy by the way) and he is graciously doing a decoder install on it for me. I am not sure if I should be excited or nervous (I know he won't mess up) as when saying thanks and handing off the neigne he said tomorrow I am going to make you smile. So hopefully he doesn't overdue it.

The engine I got was a Athearn special edition in their scheme from a few years back looked great and was only $40.

To All: I painted, lettered and applied the RMC 75th logo to this 40 foot Accurail outside braced boxcar. The car has full under body detail, #58 Kadee couplers, air hoses and coupler cut bars. The finished out the car with Bragdon Weathering powders followed by a flat sealer coat. The RMC 75th logo was lifted from magazine. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail group Layout.

Progress has not progressed at break-neck speed, but it definitely hasn't been spinning its wheels either. In the first photo you can see the old nightstand that I have re-purposed as benchwork for the layout. The second photo a the mockup of a factory flat that will go against the backdrop between the city and rural areas. The backdrop itself will be a 12"x24" sheet of 0.060" styrene.

This one stumped me for a long time but I finally sussed out a method I was mostly happy with:

Let me know what methods you use.

Kathy

The majority of the Wilmington trackage is in. Have to finish the coal dealer and the coal dump at the shipyard. Haven't finalized the coaling facilities at the service tracks, the turntable and approaches are stand in's until the real ones can be built.　

I have been working on a home brew transfer caboose.......the kit I`m using started out as a kit from Moloco.

In this kit was an Athearn 50' flat car kit..........I decided this was too big for this transfer caboose.......so I`m using a Tichy 40' flat car that I had built back in 2007 but did not paint until 2008, I had yet to decal this car so it was no loss to me to soda blast the paint off of the car where I needed to glue additional parts.

When I decided to paint up a few HBMS GE70 Ton Locomotives, I picked a paint based on photos. I knew there were shades of blue in the photos. In some cases you can see swapped parts with shades of blue on the same locomotives. However, I picked Conrail blue for my locomotives as it seemed to be the closest to my guess of faded paint. Now over the twenty years I have been up in Flin Flon, and visits to the locomotives, I never thought about pulling some peeling paint. Then all but one of the locomotives were scrapped so I missed the opportunity for most of the locomotives.