Needing an HO scale roof-top water tank for an industrial building and having nothing on hand, I decided to build one from material available.

New power has arrived on the Grimes Line, in the form of the long-awaited Athearn Genesis GP38-2s in IAIS colors. There’s a bit of work to make these a little more accurate (remove class lights, replace lighting, weather, etc.) but overall I’m very pleased with the product and am happy to get to finally grow my roster.

James

It's been a long Winter here in the Northeast, but it allowed for some good modeling time.

A Dolly Varden car for the East Broad Top visitors.

A black skyscraper for the Philly skyline dubbed the "Darth Vader" building.

Yesterday NMRA MCR division 1 meting at Seabring Ohio at the Sebring model railroad club and Railroad Museum

read about it here http://nkp765fanprrfan.blogspot.com/2015/03/yesterday-nmra-mcr-division-...

Part 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbeINfvdq6s

​part 2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hj_zAWIl9RM

Yesterday was our local NMRA meet, so I made a push to get this thing in display table condition. First, the lot was gravelled using sifted limestone screenings, fixed with matte medium. Then the walls were fastened to the foundation with Liquisilk adhesive, and corners glued with solvent cement. Here is the structure, its lack of roof apparently not preventing it from already serving traffic:

I have installed almost all the risers for the Wilmington terminal.  It has been a bit of work but I think it was better to have spent the time.  I originally planned to have the bottom of the backdrop at 49" ATF (above top of floor) and the layout at 50" ATF.  I later decided  it would be better to lower the roadbed to 49" ATF.  After trying that I decided that would create issues with the joint between the backdrop and the layout.  So I raised the layout height by 3/4".  Why 3/4"?  More on that later.

The first photo is an example of a chip loader I found online.