*OSC Railroad logo by Bill Brillinger with thanks*

My ongoing blog on the progress of my Ontario South Central Railroad,
a 6' x 1' 1/2" with 4 1/2' staging (behind tv monitor/above audio work station) Toronto condo switching layout.
In this installment I will discuss lighting the layout. Because this is a condo, the ceilings are concrete and the nearest fixture is above me and would be ok to light the staging. So my option was to put up a shelf. This is good as well as my Girlfriend is happy to have a shelf to put up her knick knacks. :)

Over the Thanksgiving Weekend In Canada I finished a kitbash of an Ontario Northland boxcar.  

A full write up of the build can be found on my personal blog.  Thanks for looking.

Ryan

http://algonquinrailway.blogspot.ca/

May be of interest to modelers. Great photos and detail about engines/ cars/ and locations.

http://s-clmodeler.aclsal.org/currentissue/sclm23.pdf

Like most folks, I purchase decorated models offered by different manufacturers.  I'd like to know if anyone has a suggestion for removal of only the lettering of a car side without damaging the factory paint.  If the lettering were decals, that would be easy but this is stamped on lettering I'm talking about.  Thanks for the help.

Ed Locklin at mp367.

The support structure for the main level has been completed. The full scale drawings (discussed in my August 2014 blog) of the layout were taped together and laid out on the supports with the help of poster board.  This gave me a good idea if the tracks were where I wanted them.  

Hi there,

We have trees

Here are some photos of my recent build: a Banta Modelworks Branch Line water tank. I modified the kit with a scratch-built roof and a few other details. SBS details on the Thunder Mesa website.

Because of the interest in this project (Details can be found here: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/19446 ) more example decoder variations have been added and some start up timing problems have been fixed. The new libraries and examples can be downloaded from here (Updated November 26, 2016):