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I needed a yard office for the west end of the yard on my layout.   I dug through my stash of the old and forgotten kits and parts and found this old AHM station in pieces and poor disrepair.    This building was on one of my original layouts as a teenager and hasn't seen the light of day in 30 years.

Morning starts bright and early in Dickinson, in the Kanawha valley of West Virginia. Blue collar families are all wide awake and stirring as the sun comes up, including those who make the early morning run over to Sam and Mickey’s for breakfast.

One of the late trains at Florida Springs is the FHRR OCS. Carrying out an inspection of the line prior to it being put up for sale. 

Hello, to all train owners,

I have a New Bright Christmas Animated Train set. I have also purchased 3 additional cars for my train. I am having an issue with the sound. The train lights up and runs perfect but, it no longer makes the sound. What is a possible problem and solution for this? Thank you for any help.

My local NMRA div held its September meet in Brockville, so of course I had to take the transfer terminal out for one last show & tell before it got bolted permanently to the layout, and then took it down to visit the real building.

Me, in shot from the west end:

Hmmm...some HVAC equipment on the roof would look good....

I'm building a layout after a quarter century hiatus from model railroading.  Life got very busy for a while and I didn't have the time to deal with maintaining or building a layout.  Now I'm older and things have slowed down and I have a new granddaughter.  Some of my favorite memories as a child where running trains with my grandfather.  He always took the time to explain how things worked on the model railroad and taught me how to use tools.   I want to do the same for my little granddaughter.

Well, summer was....summer, and then I shot my modelling in the foot by enrolling for a BA program (because two degrees aren't enough, apparently) and even a half-load of courses eats up the week. But I finally got my transfer terminal hooked up to the mainline last week. Here ACR 160 sets out a pair of container cars on the back track. There's already a boxcar inside on the front track: