The GP has changed from car cards to JMRI operations. Additional electronic have been completed to include block detection on the whole main line and sidings. Staging is only place left for detection. I have added a wire less network for remote panel control and engine operations using smart phones and tablets. We have ops session every month.

Questions are welcome. Enjoy.  

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Lately I have been adding photo backdrops that I printed.  Here are some progress shots.  Still need to blend in some of them in areas.

I have been busy unpacking and checking out my engines and rolling stock the past weeks and thought I woudl post some pictures of what I have done so far. My models have been in storage for about 18 years and some engines are in sad shape, mostly from mild corrosion. I had them stored in a spare room  in the basement with the heat turned off. Anyway, these engines are now working like new and ready for DCC.

Julian and Andrew came over again last night, and we had a most productive evening. We had a good job list, and so, there were very few times when one of us was standing around with our hands in our pockets. Poor Julian only managed to have one beer, which must mean he was busy!

To All and royhoffman: Here is my HO scale version of a Cement Container Car. I kit bashed it many years ago, I believe from a magazine article. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

On 3/26/13 I made a MRH blog post about some construction articles in “HO Model Trains “Exclusively HO Scale”” by Bill Miller. I recently completed the second car based on his articles. It was an L. C. L. container gondola car used by the Delaware & Hudson and it appeared in the April 1952 issue. The thing that attracted me was the fact that A. C. Gilbert made a similar car starting in 1955 for his American Flyer tinplate line. AF used their basic gondola which differed a bit from the prototype that Mr. Miller wrote about. It was numbered #916.