I hear so much about operations but was just wondering if there are any like me.  I just enjoy just watching trains run, building rolling stock and working on scenery.  I've been involved in operations but at times it's like watching grass grow.  Maybe I'm missing something ?

It was a busy weekend in our house between kids activities and sleepovers, regular household duties and having some visitors over.  Between all of that activity I managed to get the DCC booster and transformer moved to their permanent home on a shelf under the layout.  I found an old shelf from a home entertainment center that was not being used for anything to house the electronic gizmos. 

Work on the brige, scenery  and operations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nV8HMqudmQA

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Renowned Train Blogger Steve Boyko of www.traingeek.ca visited the BNML today.

It was a shorter session than originally planned, and one of the operators was not able to make it, but I had a great time getting to know Steve and I am looking forward to seeing him on my crew again in the future!

Sorry no video today, but here is a photo of Steve working CN 532 in Morris:

Penn Lake's Bourbon River Sub crosses numerous water courses, on a diverse collection of bridges. Follow along as I chronicle the construction of them.

  Crossing a mill pond on a scratchbuilt concrete arch bridge, Penn Lake 7

Hello again MRH Community!

Due to the comments and interest about my prototype-based freelanced railroad, I've decided to do another post. This one will contain the diesel paint schemes of the railroad from the first diesels until the latest models.

Passenger Paint Scheme: Used on all RBR&W passenger units from delivery until Amtrak

Switcher Paint Scheme As-Delivered: Used on all RBR&W switchers delivered from ALCO, BLW, EMD, and FM

I have had some request to share the design of my free standing modules. I had a few criteria for my new layout.

1. Since the layout will be in a spare bedroom it will be a round-the-walls design. The space is 10 feet against the back wall and 14 feet against the side wall in an L shape design.

Eric Gagnon (http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.ca/) posted a link on the Canadian railway modelers Facebook page with a link to the Everett Baker slide collection held by the Saskatchewan Historic and Folklore Society (www.shfs.ca ).  It has wonderful 1940's vintage shots of rural Saskatchewan life with a fair amount of railway content of particular interest to modelers such as grain elevators, stockyards, rural town views and quite a number of trains.  

I found this one in one of my used train cars, it is definitely aftermarket but I can't tell what it is?p