No room, no time, no money and no imagination. Well, I'm trying..... I want to see my train running instead of plastic  cases.

This is a tale of 1/160 people on my railroad. Let's see what they are doing now.......

Link to a video  "Qualifying the Closet"

Link to a video "The Closet Branch Rocket"

I wanted to add a little variety to my UP transfer, so I decided to model another locomotive that could be paired with the GP38-2 and would be swapped with the CNW GP15-1.  This project took exactly one week to complete and it helped that I started with a model that had already been detailed fairly well.

WIRING IS DONE1 Tested. Everything works. Tortise slow-motion switch machines installed on main line turnouts. Place-holder buildings will slowly be replaced with highly detailed scenery. Just got my photo interiors for my buildings.

 I've been an MRH Forum member for almost 7 years now, but didn't start a blog here until about 3-1/2 years ago.  I do a lot of analytics and number-crunching at work and find that sort of thing interesting, so every year or so, I think it's fun to go through my blog summary "Reads" count at http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/joe-atkinson just to see what subjects might have caught people's attention the most relative to one another.

Carpentry Construction is Done.......Scenery to start soon!  I am so glad to be done with the the room is finish trim is done and now I can focus on the track work and start Scenery.

Mike

[video embedding corrected - Bill]

SO I got the fast tracks #6 code 70 fixture the other day and have spent a few hours making some frogs and trying to figure out how to put the wood ties on the code 83 turnouts I made using just the templates.

Hi guys.  I'm wanting to weather an Accurail D&RGW Cookie Box Car and for the life of my internet searches I can't find any prototype photos for guidance.  Everything comes up out of the box models images.  I'll be real embarrassed if this is one of those "manufacturer licensing jobs" that never really existed.  But then, I can go to town at that point and get jiggy wit it...!  What the "H".. I'm a blues dude and I just used "jiggy"... Help?!?!

Thanks in Advance...Jeff El 1964

Currently there is thread discussing "MRH babies" ( http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/25489 ). My layout is most definetely one born after I began reading MRH, but so far I have never blogged about it for two reasons:

1- It is a chainsaw layout, designed from its beginning to be a skill development project, and then disposed of.

2- It is not US themed

In the "MRH Babies" thread Dave (user skillof) suggested that non-US themed layouts should be part of this forum, so here it is:

To All; I captured this CSX car on film at Saginaw, Michigan in the 1990's. It is CSXT Classroom car #940203, rebuilt from C&O MoW Kitchen Car #K102 (originally Army troop kitchen car #K376). Thanks to Tony/thor73 and the link for the information on this car This car would be a fun kit bash or scratch build.  Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

Hi friends!

I bought myself a static grass applicator about a year ago and started out by making grass on my layout.
It was easy and fast, but the result was not very realistic. So... I tested, bought new grass and tested. Watched Youtube tutorials, read through forums and made new trials, until the result started to look good.

I made a short video tutorial communicating what I learned so far, so maybe if you´re thinking about start with static grass, this might be a short-cut to a better result from day one.