Taking a moment to wish all of my model railroading "family" a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year. May all your signals be green, trains arrive on time, and consists be full of merchandise for your customers.

Peggy and I will be heading to South Carolina to visit the N Scale empire of my brother and enjoy the holiday with my dad, the Senator, who gave me the gift of signing for me (underage at the time) to work on the Nickel Plate Road with him during summers between semesters.

I received my first laser cut kit a few months back and went looking on the web for the best glue to use to assemble it. I found lots of suggestions all with drawbacks I could not live with or very expensive. I decided to strike out on my own and tried a product I was very familiar with for holding all kinds of odd stuff together. 

It has been a while since I made any posts about our CTC system project.

This screenshot shows a rough draft of the CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) interface.

I am using Digitrax SE8c and BDL168 boards connected to the computer through a PR3, using JMRI to build the panel and logic.

Open House at the Crescent City Model Railroad Club. Metairie, La. Nov. 2013 They are looking for members. Enjoy and need to get back to work on Excellence in Model Railroading.

Continuing on with the history of the railways in South Australia.

I'm looking at the Morris section of my trackplan and preparing to build the benchwork for the Paterson Grain terminal.. It occurs to me that there is an area where I will have very poor access.

I don't expect to need regular access to this hard to reach zone, but I am wondering if I should change the benchwork to lessen the reach here.

Here is the area in question: