About a month ago my family went to see some friends out of state which left me with a good week to be able to make some good progress.  Since then I have been consistently working towards getting trains running.  The following will be a brief description of what I have done:

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Folks.

I recently acquired a Brass samhongsa loco that appears to be an L4 Mohawk.

The loco came with out the front smoke box cover and my initial measurements come to 29.04mm (measured with vernier gauge) with roughly translates to 99inch in prototype. I also need a tender ladder but that's easy

I have found parts at greenwayproducts.com which have some covers but only seem to have up to 92inch covers.

Can anyone suggest other supplier(s) that may have parts.

My issue is dust on my layout and how you minimize or prevent it.  I am working on a two level shelf layout in a spare bedroom in the lower portion of a split level home.  There are two furnace ducts which are ceiling mounted for a forced air furnace that has an electronic air cleaner with HEPA post filter.  I always leave the bedroom door closed.  Even so, I have a considerable amount of dust accumulating. 

I am modeling in HO. Currently experimenting with using leds to simulate the flow of hot liquid in a cast house.
 The results thus far are shown in the pictures. 

The purpose of this blog is to document the building of my N scale Free-moN module. It will be an exact 1:160 copy of the prototype (or as close as I can reasonably get!) 

The prototype is a small shortline railroad based in Sodus, NY, the Ontario Midland Railroad; which I will refer to by it's reporting mark of OMID. The railroad is headquartered in Sodus, and there is a small yard, which I can model without any selective compression in sixteen feet. 

Here is a link to Sodus on Google Maps:

A new set of videos focusing on how to paint backdrops in a quick and effective way. Really meant to help those that have large layouts with long narrow isle ways and lots of running space. I will take you through the whole process of one person painting 25 feet in less than three hours. It is something the whole club or team can do and there is no special skills required. Just some paint brushes and courage. Follow the series and give it a try.