Pennsylvania heres the story, I have two gp7s in the santa fe paint scheme and one in the Pennsylvania black scheme. I am looking at all the santa fe schemes for gp7 though the zebra stripe looks for sure to difficult. What tips does everyone have for going about painting this? I will post picture of the two options and look for input (so instead of an impressive double header, i will have an impressive triple header!)

Hi all.

I have been working on the layout, and let me tell you - I really enjoy doing scenery work. I love running trains in a realistic manner, (in Portugal, normally we have toy train, not model trains!!!), but scenery work it's really nice! :)

I have to rush things a bit, because show where I am going to participate with the layout is going to happen in three days!!! 

So things are like this at the moment:

After some shuffling of bedrooms, it looks like I'll have a much bigger place to build a layout.  Going to go with a folded dogbone.  It's roughly 8x12.  It will include the switching layout I've already got started.  Although I might redo the benchwork to use something a little more sturdy.  The curved switch in the top left corner will wrap around the edge and connect to the lower level staging.  I think the upper level is finalized.  The staging level I need to get a way to turn a locomotive at least. 

I spent the weekend laying down grass on a large portion of the layout.  I wanted very nice looking grass and I knew that ground foam was not going to cut it, yet I did not want to spend a ton of money on an expensive static grass applicator. Luckily I discovered a product from Scenic Express called "TuftGRASS".

I've got my third phase benchwork complete and most of the track down.  Just one more turnout and a few lengths of flex and I'll have all of the mainlines in place and operational.  I've been running trains around the upper level and everything works great.  My EM-1 will easily pull all the cars I own up the grade without even breaking a sweat.  And with quite a few hours running now no derailments anywhere on the layout.

**UPDATE 10-29-16 Scrap pile installed (Page 12 on this thread)  Click HERE

**UPDATE 10-27-16 Gathering scrap (Page 11 on this thread)  Click HERE

** UPDATE 9-14-16 Equipment being installed.  (Page 10 on this thread) Click HERE

Hello all. I have been away from MRH much too long and away from my layout much too long. But life has been busy lately. 

I have been giving a great deal of thought to how I am going to do convincing tracks in the street on the switching layout and after much doodling and drawing I think I have finally come to a plan. I have attached a drawing I think will explain it better than my words.

Index

1. "A tale of three Bridges - New Jersey".

2. "A rail journey pt. 2".

3. "N.E. Pennsylvania pt. 3".

4. "Minot, North Dakota GN-BN-BNSF pt. 4 Post 1".

4. "Minot, North Dakota GN-BN-BNSF pt. 4 Post 2".

5. "Great Northern's Class R's compared to SP MC-1's".

No matter the scale!

Hi all.

I tried weathering the sleepers according to Mike Confalone's suggestions on his DVD's "Modeling Out Side the Box".

 I used Vallejo Acrylics, with similar colors, but it was on PECO code 55 N scale track.

The images speak by them selves. 

These are the colors used.

I have never seen so many people on the site the model railroader hobbyist.
I believe that this is a record