So often, we spend countless hours and dollars (or Euros or Yen or whatever) trying to duplicate in miniature the way some object or scene existed at some very specific time and place.  I'm as guilty of it as anyone, and probably a lot more than most.  It's called being a rivet counter.  The truth is, I enjoy it.  I get a great deal of satisfaction out of researching some arcane bit of railroad history and then modeling it to the best of my ability.

On the other hand...

This is my poor attempt at making a good story like Verne Niner creates. I need more of my layout finished, but for now it will work. This is best enjoyed while eating candy corn and peanuts. 

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Halloween eve in northern Minnesota. Lena was getting tired of Ole just sitting around and drinking beverages. She told him to go get a good job. So Ole went down to see if the local ore mine could use some help.

I set out to build a phone system for my layout so we could use ABS and Track Warrants on my new layout. I saw some information in the pass but not much on how or what you need to build your own phone company in your layout room.

This video I made goes over what I have found and some ideas that I looked into that start at $125 to build your own phone system that will work. I have also included below in link as to where I bought parts.

this is the link to my video:

Several months ago I grabbed a "box of junk" at a train show for next to nothing dollar wise. The two cars pictured here were in the box along with a CP F7A engine (it runs) and 3 other cars. The 2 pictured cars are Tonshodo brass CP Vista Dome observation cars that I am currently attempting to resurrect. The pictured seating is home made and incorrect for the boat tail car, so some time will be required to acquire the correct seating or make my own. One end of one of one of the car floors was also broken and I have repaired that problem.

Well  here we go...This is the Upper Deck of what I hope will be my future layout. And I'm probably designing it all wrong but the upper deck is easier than main.   Now this is based off of another layout thats been posted here recently - Pldvdk's N&W Pokey District.  Yes I have his blessing to use it to the point he sent me his Xtrkcad Files and I have already shared my few ideas and hes helped it along.  But time to get some more help.  Do I have the Main deck and the staging deck done yet..No...Why?....

Same procedure as last year! I like to share my free downloadable calender available at my modellcom-blog. Sorry, but the site is only in german, but you may use the translation function to get a little idea about what is going on there (railroads, real and model and cardmodeling).

The calendar is available as pdf. Print it to your desired size by choosing the printer settings.