Yet another "off-again-on-again" project. Just completed it this afternoon with some weathering. My first structure using foam core board. Learnt a lot, hope the next one will be easier!

Thought I would post these photos even though I still have to complete the scenery, access road and track ballasting.

Lyndon S.

Santa Fe Railway - Los Angeles Division - 1950s

Locomotives painted in the MMID paint scheme are few and far between and I'll need 3-4 for an operations session.  I've already got Atlas GP38 painted for 300 and 301 so this MMID 300 needed to be renumbered for something between 302 and 305.  I posted a question on the discussion forum about removing the number and got a number of useful responses.  I decided to use a Solvaset soaked piece of tissue paper over the right zero and then rubbing it with a softened toothpick.  It didn't work.

From an idea to digging out my crawl space under my family room to starting the project, starting something has a power of its own.

Anyone have issues programming TCS decoders recently. They are using version 90 in the non sound decoders and JMRI does not recognize that version. So being I cannot program those decoders. The one in question is a K1D4 for non sound Kato N scale engines. I could not find anything on JMRI concerning the versions. I have downloaded their latest 4.20 as of July 2020 So I have the latest software. If there's an update and you know. It sure would help me out. Thanks Locoman99

MRH: Because this site repeats the first post across all the thread pages, long initial posts aren't the best. We dramatically shortened your opening post and moved all the good stuff to the FIRST COMMENT, which is a best practice on threads here.

A friend of mine has a pile of vinyl fence parts stacked on his property:

Every time I've seen this, I've thought "That looks like benchwork". And if you add about $60 in hardware, foam, and construction adhesive, plus a few hours, it can be:

Since this layout departed my parent's house in 2015, it has lived on top of a variety of stacked boxes, plastic shelving towers, and laundry room racks. Now that it is settled in this corner of our office for the forseeable future, it deserved benchwork that was a bit more permanent.

Got my butt in gear.  Starting to build the "Peco NB-55 Well Type Turntable".  Thought I'd document my progress in this entry.  By all accounts is supposed to be an easy plastic kit to build, which is good since I've never been really happy with any plastic kit I've ever built.   It is an armstrong model, and I intend to leave it manual.  Guess that makes it a "fingerstrong" turntable?

As I go along, if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.