DOWN AT THE STATION

The Cincinnati Bluffton & Chicago

I updated my blog last night, and it can be found here:
http://trainfanatic.blogspot.com/2013/07/slow-and-steady-it-doesnt-win-r...

Here's a mission I just completed for my little Sonoran village of San Lorenzo. It is made from blocks of florist foam, spackling compound, wood, styrene and acrylic paint:

Time to make some progress on this year's forum challenge.  I'm finishing a scene set in the valley just west of my Junction City yard.

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I model the P&R  in the 1900-1905 era.  I obtained a 1903 P&R operating rule book and transcribed the majority of it into a word doc, to preserve and share it.

I have attached a copy to this blog post.

If you are familiar with post WW1 timetable and train order rule books you will note some differences.  I call rule books from this era "international" rule books because all the examples of train orders  use international capitols as the station names (... run extra Berlin to Istanbul...).

Enjoy.

John Travis was host to a OpSig Operations session on one of the nights at the NMRA Nat. Convention. This is a great Layout.  Their are two video the one I took and one done for him.  John has created a very simple car tag car movement system. You will see them on top of cars.

This is his other video.

Interesting prototype used by Forest Service. Cookhouse was fun to build but still need to add more details.