Hello,

today I've uploaded an update about my model railroad layouts on Youtube

I'll covering some new rolling stock for the N gauge layout, improvments on the room lights, a magnetic N gauge coupler and my G&D H0 scale layout.

Markus

It's been a year and half since I tore down my last layout so we could move.  After a lot of remodeling work in the new house I'm glad to say that I'm finally able to begin construction on a new layout, the Pokey 3.0!

As I've done before, this will be an HO free-lanced layout, based loosely on the N&W Pocahontas District between Bluefield, W. Virginia, and Williamson, W. Virginia, era 1966, with some Appalachian mountain scenery which I love.

Sleepy town of Bingham on the Copper King Mine and railroad. The video I uploaded this week on my YouTube channel is on Copperton the last remaining town at the mouth of Bingham canyon, nothing to do with model railroading so I just share a link if you want to check it out; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHPgr-wWPwk&t=22s

I wanted to have my stainless steel passenger cars have a real metal look.  Since I don't have an airbrush, I needed something that could be brushed on.  looking through what I had on hand it occured to me that nothing looks more like metal then metal.  This is my most recent foil wrapped car, a Walthers mainline coach for the start of my sunset train.

Fall has arrived, snow has arrived so that means the winter modelling season has begun. I wanted a little more “beef” for my mining industry area. I am building the industry to fit the cars I already have. I have collected a number of smaller hoppers similar to ones used in the Fraction sand And potash industry. I also have a number of larger hoppers used on Canadian railways and for Canadian industries. If you have not followed my blog, I collect cars with Canadian railway names, or references to Canada not too many of the major players.

This scenery project is similar to MRH's October "What's Neat".  The rock "cut" in the center used Woodland Scenics facet rock mold number 1244 four times, once vertically and thee times horizontally at different orientations.  On the left are two uncolored pours from this mold.  I will arrange them to represent cut rock on the outsid

Sad News

Amherst announced 2021 Show Cancellation today.

Scale Model Animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! When I started out designing low-cost decoders, they were intended to facilitate my animation work.

Hey guys, back with a research request this time. One of the recent gentlemen that's shown up to the club here in town has a 30X30 building behind the house that he and I are planning on sticking a double decker/partial mushroom design in. Prototype is Seaboard Coast Line, era is 1984 between the L&N absorption and CSX, and territory is the Birmingham to Manchester section covering Birmingham, Bessemer, Cosa Pine, Talladega, LaGrange and Manchester.