A look at the IMC (Indianapolis, Michigan City) line of the Nickel Plate entering south side of Kokomo, Indiana on my version. Oops that train is leaving town, just past where the gas tower of Kokomo Gas will set. 

This pic was taken late fall of 2014, have now finished the grade down to the stagging that is on the peninsula on the left

I have seen times where a website link is embedded in the text I know you can just put a link in by itself but how do put it in a word so when you click the text it links. If you can help let me know thanks!

Making of the road that runs between Ironwood & Watersmeet.  Road being taped for striping. I cut the road out of .060 styrene, 3" wide then glued it to HO scale track cork to bring it to the same level as the track for the grade crossing.

Burnishing the tape for a good seal

Here is the update on the town of Ironwood, MI. I have built & placed all of the buildings that will go into town. Laid out & painted the streets and am now getting ready to paint the road striping.

All the buildings are either DPM or Walthers kits. Here they are primed and ready for the final finish painted to be done. A couple are already finished painted.

To All: Did you know that coal was transported in gondolas and boxcars. Yes coal was transported in bocars, sometimes the boxcars were partitioned off for different grades in the same car. The Ottumwa Box Car Loading Company manufactured a machine that loaded coal in boxcars! It was called a Rocker Type Loader, as it rocked the car back and forth to evenly distribute the coal load. This method was used into the 1960's. This loading machine would make an interesting modeling project! There are photos of these machines on the internet. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail group Layout

It's been far too long since my last update. While work on the layout has been moving at an absolutely glaical pace for the past several months, this last week I've been working feverishly to get some work done. The main thing I've accomplished since the last post was the completion of the trackwork. 

Well, everybody of us needs at least one station for the layout or diorama or even running trains on the table!
There are very few station buildings available in TT scale. Of course, somebody can use small flagstop station from BTS, or try to find some old stations on Ebay (I have one), or use some German or Czech buildings, but it is not enough!

I just posted 4 pic but they only seem to come up on my comment page (?)

I want to put a siding off the mainline but I'm not sure what radius to use. I'm using Micro Engineering HO, code 70 #6 turnout. i would like to have the track center lines two inches apart. Is there a way to figure out the radius from the turnout to the siding without using complicated math formulas? Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

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