A great video of the upper level of the MA&G layout. This is one of the Best Modelers on this Planet.  Cliff Powers.

Take time to go to his web site and look at the pictures and Videos it will be the best 4 hours you can spend in this hobby.  PS I lived in NO for 62 years this is as close as you get to being 100 percent correct as possible in the space this railroad is built in. Open Post more video links attached.

I am in the process of finishing the fourth of five levels on the second spline helix.  It takes me about a week to add the section, install the cork roadbed and track and do the soldering required for the feeders as well as soldering the track sections.  This could probably be done faster if I was in a hurry or if I did not have chores around the house. 

hello every one
as some of you know i am rebuilding my layout. before i get into the bench work, i have a question, how tall should i make the lower deck on a 2 level layout. my previous layout it was 40" let me know how high some of you made yours.
thanks vinny...aka...bnsf6951

www.bnsf6951.blogspot.com

Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! We notice things when they move, and we often notice things only when they change. But change can also be sensed in light intensity, patterns, color, and sound. Let’s see what can bring an otherwise static building to life.

Today, I would like to write a review of Model Railroader Video Plus, a new subscription site offered by Model Railroader Magazine. 

Well the Layout is still under construction but we are getting closer and closer to having the main line and staging yard finished with the track portion. We still have to lay the track for the Grain Mill and then the bottom level will be finish. Then comes the wiring of the staging yard and installing the tortoise switch machines.

UPDATE: For those of you interested in hearing the story behind the K&LE and seeing some great video footage of the layout in operation, it's featured in the September edition of TrainMasters TV. Here's a link to the preview: http://trainmasters.tv/video-player/tmtv-2014-09-act-i-preview. And here's a link to some photos of John's incredible steel mill complex: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/14244.

My daughter's first recognizable picture was an apple. She was perhaps three, and at the time she was already a prolific artist, producing mostly pages of coloured straight, parallel lines. But this day, I was working on the endless basement reno, and she came down and presented me with a beautiful red apple with a green leaf. "Oh, what a wonderful apple!" I exclaimed. She beamed and went upstairs to produce more, reappearing a few minutes later with a sheet of parallel lines. "Lovely!" I exclaimed, "What is it?" She looked at me with the look that I hadn't expected her to perfect for at least another ten years, the look that says "Oh, Daddy, you are so dense!" and she explained, "It's lines."

What did Andrew and I (the other member of the posse being in Nevada) get up to last night?

Lines.

Two roughly parallel lines.