There is a serious effort to rebuild a portion of the narrow-gauge Silverton Northern, running north out of Silverton Colorado to Howards Fork.  They're looking to raise $10,000, and have about $3800 raised so far.

More details are in this article:

http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?id=660

If you'd like to help, there's a crowd-sourcing project where you can donated located here:

https://mainstreetcrowd.com/SJCHS

Just came across some roundhouse details in an unsuspected place. At about one hour and twenty minutes into the movie 'In the heat of the night". Some Gulf Mobile and Alabama GMO power and other RR shots throughout the movie.

The chase scene shows some good interior shots of service pits, timber bracing and even a safety sign. These shots are interesting to me as I am scratch building my N Scale roundhouse for the Mooers Junction Railroad.

On a Gatorboard® based insert for my turntable and roundhouse. You know how I love my Gatorboard!

Hey guys, im the stage of finishing my river scene that will extend off to Newport VT. that section has not been started yet but plan on getting around to it this winter. i am at a fork in the road weather or not to do a detailed rock river or a black deep river and what to use i used the woodland scenic water beofr i myself was not really a fan and i heard other have had problems with it any way i thought getting i would see if you guys would be willing to post some ideas or photo please let me know what you think.

Well, today was the day I try out soldering for the first time.  Here I am in my 50s and it just isn;t something I'd done before.  I had started out by buying this Weller variable wattage soldering setup from Micro-Mark:

http://www.micromark.com/economy-priced-variable-temperature-soldering-iron,9257.html

Some cabins for my Trees Unlimited logging line that I whipped up last weekend.

More information here.

http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/09/logging-camp-cabins-outhouses-and-boat.html