One box delivered. 16 freight cars for the fleet. Two nice 8-car bundles from one seller on E-Bay. $88. That comes out to $5.50 per car including shipping. I am very pleased with that. All had knuckle couplers. But all wheels will have to be replaced. All cars wil have to be weighted heavy. And of course weathered.

Well this morning spent some time on the underframe assembly.

First installed the Fishbellys in place. You can't put these on the wrong sides as one has two slots to fit in and the other has one. When you do this, you need to make sure the detail is facing out so they're not backwards.

Then put together the Body Bolster halves.

Good morning all,

So if you look at the dates of last posts, you'll notice that this shelf has been a long time coming.  Now I've got to design the track plan.  The shelf is 16 inches wide, nine and a half feet by six feet.  It can come apart in two four foot and two six foot sections.  Still want to model the NYC in Michigan, somewhere between Owosso and Saginaw.  I am considering a Time Saver or some sort of switching puzzle on part of it for higher interest.  Not really sure yet on what to do with the track plan.

Here are the design photos models to come later:

photos to come later

Hoffy shares his personal opinion on the cost of the model railroading hobby, and his personal experiences with buy things in the ecommerce era.

I always have too many projects ongoing, but thought I’d share one of my ongoing builds.  I got my hands, some time ago, on a pair of the old Roundhouse Climax shells, and decided to see what I could do with one of them.  I’ll be using a Bachmann 44 tonner mechanism to power it.

It's HARD to get a decent photo of something that's all black!

Here are some photos of my model Railroadz layouts in Trainz 12. One of them is a small oval while the other is more of a work in progress but NG.