Another Great Layout from the Southeast Part of the Country.   This layout is part of Dixie Rails. Enjoy.

I have been working on the control panel and signals at Lum tower.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmYQqPZQ5c4

​Cleaning up the workshop before thanksgiving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb2ImZBud60

Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! This edition covers one element for animating grade crossings—triggering and control using infrared detectors, servo motors, LEDs, and an Arduino Pro Mini for timing and control.

Been making some progress. 

Much of the old wiring is out.  

Half of my Atlas-PECO conversion is 80% done - switches are in, PL-10's check, PL-15's - check, wired to control panel - Oh yeah, I need a control panel. 

Out with the old - anyone need a box of used Atlas control's?  Removed the DC packs (one is back as I'm going to give myself an either-or DPDT switch - no cab control, just the chance to run DC trains switch will choose either the DC transformer or the DCC system).  

My 3 and 6 year olds thought my scenery needed some work so they went to work. Not sure if the proto police will allow this but looks good for now.

I've added another new engine to the roster after some finishing touches tonight.  SPV #19 started as one of Blackstone's diamond stack C-19s and received somewhat significant modifications, including a slightly shortened smokebox, rearranged and replumbed appliances, a backdated tender arrangement, and a paint job that more realistically (at least to my eye) replicates a Russia Iron boiler jacket.

After leaving the Upper Yard area we come across the area that is called beaver creek corner.  This area is next on the construction schedule.  It will include the turnout at the end of the Arrival/Departure track to get on the main line, some signals, and of course a bridge over Beaver Creek. 

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Does anyone have a body shell or parts from a Proto 2000 GP-18? I need a top fan (high sided type) and the end rails/stanchions to repair one that has a sound decoder in it. Apparently Walthers isn't supporting parts for these Life-Like units. Contact me if you have one, especially the fan. Thanks.

For the longest time this triangle of real estate in the corner of the 22nd Avenue Secondary has remained barren and empty, with no apparent development in sight. I have wrestled with this space almost since the construction of the benchwork, never having come up with a good plan for what to do with it. Besides the obvious angle-induced problems, whatever landed there had to keep the food distributor in the back accessible for switching.