So I've gone out and seen South Korea Proper this weekend...and I though I'd share my observations.

IN a couple of the sources I looked up, I noted that they pretty much all stated that South Korea is not that big on Model Railroading.  And after I got a good look at their system, I think I understand why.

First, THIS is a typical railroad mainline.

Oh, there it is. 

I have been reading the different methods that everyone has been using to weather wood.

I have been using one of two methods for 40 or more years.

The first is to take a bottle of white vinegar and some fine steel wool.  Get a large jar and  insert the steel wool.

My sloping ceiling makes for some challenging areas to work on and this is no exception. I wanted the stream or cut to appear as though it goes beyond the modeled area where the line ducks into staging. The foam helps fill the gaps and is hard to reach so before I have the mirrors cut to shape it seemed prudent to give it a look-see. The pieces are scraps from a broken mirror and I hope a shop can cut a hole for the train to pass or maybe some trees can be used to cover the gap. Any suggestions would be helpful here. 

I worked on some more military flat cars this afternoon. I used some chains from a set of Alkem Scale Models HeavyDuty Tie Down Chains to secure a HEMMT Fuel truck to a OTTX 60-ft flat car. The flat car is an Intermountain Company model. The HEMMT is Herpa model. I made the decal for the truck using my ink jet printer.



Derrell Poole offers his views for an alternative solution to store your precious rolling stock models. Suitable for N, HO and Sn3 scales, you can view them on the C&Sn3 blog at: http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/

Enjoy if you visit, 

Darel

To All: On Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, Angela, Aydan and Daniel Garza from Greely, Colorado (home of an excellent railroad museum and model railroad), visited my layout. Adyan, age 2 years really loves trains! The Garza's are my wife's relatives. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

I’ve been stuck for a few weeks trying to decide how to break a log jam. The benchwork sections have been resting idle, loosely bolted together and leaning against the wall but not fastened to it. I have a new crop of students who have been happily learning the basics of car movement, coupling, inertia, switch operations, etc. on the Inglenook, but a few of them have begun to paw the ground, eager to get going on the big layout.

As I'm tearing down the old layout, I'm uncovering all this stuff.  It looks like a hobby shop threw up in my train room.  I found about 30 DPM/Walthers/Smalltown USA buildings for my never built city, that I had started to assemble but never finished, in addition to several boxes of books, and some scenery stuff.

Nick