Last week I took a little vacation for myself. Wednesday I drove down to the FWWR main office at Hodge Yard. After going into the office and talking to some personnel about my situation and was able to talk to a dispatcher. He took a couple of minutes to answer some questions I had about the Everman area. The FWWR had created a small office down there so crew could pick up paperwork for the day.

I had a busy weekend but managed to apply some paint. I was able to get the vintage white applied but ran to into some issues when applying the green for the two tone as you'll see in the images to follow. so I'm a little dissapointed in my paint job and trying to figure out how to resolve the issue before moving on.

First two pics show Vintage White Acrylic applied.

Bob and James, new friends I made through contacts on this forum, were scheduled to come check out the BNML yesterday.  Arrive was set for between 4:30 and 5:00 for an evening of runnin' trains. Unfortunately Bob couldn't make it. (I hope you feel better soon!)

I planned to run 2 trains - the normal interchange Run from Winnipeg to Noyes and its US sister, the Noyes BNSF train. I got my paperwork ready and our train was ready to roll into Morris when James arrived.

There's a recent forum thread on the topic of how to dimension a structure from photos, so what follows is a brain dump of how I designed my kitbashed structure. Given I'm not trying for an exact copy -- more like "as close as I can get with Pikestuff parts" -- just how do I decide how big to make this thing, and all the individual bits of it?

The final piece of my IAIS Grimes Line layout is underway. I’ve attached a photo showing what looks like a random collection of Tinkertoys that will, hopefully one day, be the outbound crane of Chicago Bridge and Iron in Clive, Iowa. I’m guessing some of you may be wondering, is that all?

Hi guys,

I'm looking for info for my 1968 - 1970 era short line free lanced RR. What type of covered hoppers would be appropriate for special sand loading, say for glass making or a similar operation.

Thanks! Scott

I have been working on two jobs here at home. One is the layout and the other is my truck. I have the truck running but need to finish the paint and the side steps yet. also have to find some lower seat pedestals. Getting there for sure.

I have spent several hours over the last month pulling up each of the 48 insulfrog turnouts on the staging level to insulate the frogs.  This was fairly easy but tedious as I use track nails to hold down my turnouts and I do not solder them to the incoming or outgoing tracks.