It's September 32nd, by my reckoning. So how am I doing against the Big Hairy Audacious Goal? One month in, and I think I'm about a week behind schedule. For those of you who are no better at math than I am at reading a calendar, that's 25% behind schedule. At this rate, I'll have trains running in February or March, and I'll be ready for VanRail 2015 some time late in 2016.

This is the final group of photos. These are of the areas that do not have scenery or all of the structures built. I do have card board foot prints in place to hold the industries spot and give the operators a idea of where and what they will be for our OPS sessions. So here goes.

Looking East across the Watersmeet Engine Terminal at Watersmeet, MI and into Ironwood, MI. A lot of detail work and building construction left to be done in all of the following areas. But progress not to bad for starting with a totally blank canvas basement just 11 years ago.

CNW - Peninsula Div. Part 3

Chicago & North Western Ore Dock #6 in Escanaba, MI

Looking at the Champion Mine area

Hardwood Lumber Mill (Division of Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co.

Looking East down the Hardwood Branch Line

A complete video of the how to build bottle brush trees using the McKenzie Brothers Timber Co. machine is included in this post.  First picture is the new look at the New River Mine.

Old look of the New River Mine.

Another view new Look New River Mine.

Unfortunately for the driver in the burgundy Impala he had a busted tag light...

Jas...

With house construction and finishing basically done, it's time to get organized... Step one for organizing is to build storage shelves, which are conveniently, part of the benchwork for the railroad!

Built the benchwork shelving for under the St. Jean to South of Morris section of the layout with my youngest son tonight.

Dear modeler friends, here you can see some images from Hobby Model Expo 2013, september  27-29 at Milan (Italy), one of the massive model trains show (and others toys) present in Italy.

Angelo
www.prrho.com

Mr. Humphrey's is doing fine but his property got a little bit of a makeover.

I originally built Mr. Humphrey's house on a piece of 1" foam but after building some modules I  found that the 1" thickness was a bit much for the Free-mo. If I used 1/2" pink foam my dimensions would work out better and be less material to try to account for in the building process.