The BRS welcomed 3 new pieces of rolling stock this week:

Gonna have to work on the first two - clearly one of these things is not like the other.

The shop foreman also had an engaging discussion with one of his guys about when the track work crossing Bufkin's Bayou will be finished:

Keeping the year-end BHAG in mind, I wanted to complete track-laying on the north section before the end of October. Saturday was October 33rd, and I made a last-ditch effort to get it done. When the dust settled around three in the morning, the clocks had retreated an hour (bonus!), and I had all the stock rails and guard rails in place.

We had our 1st "operating session" yesterday on the Hudson Bay Railway.  I was the dispatcher/station agent/ superintendent.  Crew on the Lynn Lake Mixed train was my daughter (8) and son (5) taking turns as engineer and brakeman/conductor.  My 2 year old was the local railfan who wandered away before he had a chance to run a train.  Next time around. 

According to walthers the glacier gravel company is an immitation of a stone crush and washer and the valley cement company is an actual cement production plant so I will build them seperatly and place them on close together and join the two using a conveyer system to create a large industrial area is this a good idea or if it was you designing the layout would you keep them far apart and use rail transport

I am faced with a problem, and since I am currently waiting for paint to dry so I can get back to work on my tender, I figured I'd sit and blather on a bit.  The story follows shortly...

CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY

I really enjoyed the article in this month's MRH (October) on modeling a NS GE 70-tonner. I own a model of that loco from Bachmann, and it got me to thinking about some work I could do on it. Up to that point, it was detailed and painted for my freelance RR, but I have been wanting to find an obscure, short line prototype railroad to model. 

That's because I'm slowly accumulating enough track, cars, power pack, and other stuff to start a layout. I'm also going with DCC from the beginning and plan to Wire It Right the first time.

We are remodeling our kitchen and two upstairs bathrooms. I expect this will give me at least two or three doors to use as tables for an N scale layout. I'll also have some 2x4's available for building the legs. I plan to build the table in a modular way so I can first build it in the garage, disassemble, and assemble in the basement.

 A & B Units powered and other Bs are dummies. Cars are very old Balboa cars.

I already presented the first two modules of the modular switching layout "Industry Ave" (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/13976). The goal was to get an industrial layout focused on switching. But my concern was - will this become boring after some time? After serving some industries everytime the same way with the same moves?

In my concept - and now realization - the modules can easily be rearranged. There will be the same industries, but the moves to serve them will change everytime.