When you want to run dual DragonAir - airbrushes, you need a custom manifold.

Tonight’s project all completed, brass fittings, Iwata flow control valves with gauges.
I may even give this the SMS Paint treatment to match the Iwata valves...

I have been spending a bit of time every few nights putting shingles on my station. I like the wood shingle effect an colours that suggest aged roofing. I am nearly complete this part of my structure, so how did I get to this point.

One time all Electric Copperton Low Line, company owned ore haulage line to the mills, one of the heaviest density railroads in the World at one time.

This rock cut uses the Woodland Scenics facet rock mold multiple times.   Although this might make a geologist cringe , changing orientations of the same mold conceals the repetition.

below a closeup of three uses of the facet mold before filling in gaps between the molds:

Hey Model Railroaders!  

Benchwork build continues on the Marshline and I recorded a video showing you my tips and techniques on building my ULTIMATE Benchwork! In the video I demonstrate different tools and techniques on how I'm making furniture grade shadowbox benchwork!

Hello everyone. 

Something i've been putting off has been backdrops. An important feature of a model railrad. A friend of mine doesn't really like the photo backdrops as he says it takes away from the modelled portion of the layout. But as one of the backdrop providers says on their website, a backdrop is a model too. 

I'm proficient with Adobe Photoshop and with editing I can produce a nice backdrop with high quality images, if I have them. 

Lehigh Cement is the primary reason for the continued existence of the Maryland Midland Railroad. In fact, the cement company owns a significant portion of the railroad and has always been the largest shipper along this line since the Western Maryland days.  It was always planned to be the centerpiece of my layout.  I wanted to have it as a switching area so I could go switch it without running the rest of the layout.

Belated Happy New Year to all!  My January was spent with a blessedly mild case of Covid....14 day isolation and all.  My wife was exposed at work, and we both tested positive.  We are both fine and neither of us required hospitalization, so God blessed us on that front.

So needless to say between the holidays and isolation I have accomplished nill....My plans and research are now centered on Kansas and Oklahoma for a prototype, and I have decided to build a small shelf layout to start off.

After not being able to source another HO Scale - Western Maryland - GP35 in their Circus scheme, I decided to have a go at making my own.<

After a lot of back and forth with myself I decided to strip the repaint the cab with the correct decals to the era I model as well as changing out the digitrax decoder for an ESU loksound micro. I then added a custom made sound set I created using their software and lokprogrammer.