Hi everyone, I am trying to dig up a set of plans for Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Electric Motors #201 and 202:

GE built s/n 32882-32883, built in July 1957 for the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific in Montana.

My updated 3D print of the 85 ton steeple cab arrived this week. All my previous print flaws were corrected, and additions printed as well.

Generally you can't tell much for differences from this shot, but the big difference is the beefed up truck .

Well the kitbash of Atlas "Middlesex Mfg. kit is now finished. It has become Brown County Warehouses, Inc. located in Green Bay WI. on my HO scale CNW Peninsula Div. Railroad. Here are some pictures of the completed building. The first two show it in it's location and the others are more close up and a little detail.

I was given a bunch of steel rail "O Scale" I think. Maybe 20-30 pounds of it along with a bunch of pre stained ties that were in old Walthers boxes. I am thinking of taking it to the metal salvage  but maybe people still have a use for it?

I was looking for another project of limited scope that would still deliver some impact, so settled on finishing the backdrop behind my Junction City yard.  The yard is supposed to be on a valley floor adjacent to some river bottomland like the prototype UP yards at Riverdale and Ogden, UT, as well as the former D&RGW Ogden yard now used by a shortline.  The basics of the trees are similar to those needed for backdrops for other prototypes as well.

This beautiful layout in the Denver Area was part of Rocky Op North 2013. This Great example of a great running layout that with a very effective operations plan.  Their were 8 operators and owner acting as dispatcher. Great fun had by all.

As per an earlier blog I concluded I couldn't leave Murph's sign hanging like that. It's not fair to the pedestrians on Hammerjacks to have to worry about a sign falling on them and it's not fair to Murph's sign guy to stand there on a ladder in perpetuity fixing the sign.  The sign now hangs from copper wire (still to be painted) Also my security gates arrived. The plan is an open gates at the liquor store and pawn shop but a closed gate at Record & Tape Traders.

Yuma, Arizona, is about 200 miles from hobby shops in Phoenix, Tucson or San Diego and has dropped from it's winter high of 150,000 population to the summer (year round) hardy souls of about 80,000.  Our little club, Rail Roadrunners of Yuma, is down to Marvin and me after having our 2 regular snowbirds, Ron R. and Bobber Gibbs of On30 Conspiracy bail after the first 100 degree day.  Come November we hope to draw a few more birds.

Andrew and I met in the garage again last night. The garage has been pretty full of layout for the past week, and soon the layout is going to be the sort of thing that I don't want to find bikes leaning against. Time to get it out of the way! So, up it went, next to the ceiling.