The module uses built in LED lighting strips. I'm still experimenting with systems but the initial results are very encouraging. I especially like the fact that things like valance, fascias, and lighting are built in. To many of my previous layouts suffered because these items were left until the layout was "finished".

After a delay while we were designing a new benchwork system, the Kaslo & Slocan is off and running again. The benchwork is a modification of a system that was first described in the Jan. and Feb. issues of Model Railroader. Yes I know I'm dating myself but the issue called Bookcase Model Railroad has intrigued me ever since I read it. In fact in the early 90's I made several of the modules to validate the system. The design worked except is was very heavy and the shelf brackets available at the time were difficult to install and didn't offer the bracket lengths available today.

Welcome,

Here are some my N Scale projects for my Canadian National/Wisconsin Central Neenah Subdivision layout. Most of these projects are my first attempt at techniques that I have learned or discovered myself. Now since I'm out of school, I finally have more time for trains.  

Not wanting to hijack the latest Iowa Interstate posting, but the Grimes Line superintendent noted on his new structure that standoff details were really going to help the printed graphics lumber company.  For anyone who is afraid (like I was) that printed graphics laminated to a building shape will make a flat and uninteresting structure - it doesn't have to be so! 

A lot of oil is transported these days by rail. Pipeline infrastructure has not kept up due to a default position of no investment. The unexpected fracking revolution caught everyone off guard. So here's an article that's interesting to us who follow railroad issues

http://www.rbnenergy.com/trains-leave-kinder-morgan-pipeline-in-lurch?vm=r&s=1

***6/9/13 UPDATE***

Last month (May), a man contacted me through our shared Local Hobby Shop:  He had a 3'x16' HO layout that was half done.  He also had grandsons who are 7- and 8-years old and who really wanted to run trains with Grandpa.

The challenge was that, ever since being diagnosed with cancer a year ago, between the chemo and the medication he just didn't have the energy to continue work on the layout.  So he needed a strapping young man with the muscles and know-how to get the layout done and running well.