A little office building detail. (HO)

Welcome to the building of the Lyon Valley Northern.  This historical record provides a pictorial account of the fun I had building the layout.  The journey starts with benchwork construction, then track laying, scenery, industrial structures and more.  Lots of captions on processes I used which may help you in your model railroad efforts.  Enjoy.

  Model Rail Radio is running a layout contest.  The first phase of the contest - design - is over, and the build phase is begun.  I submitted 2 designs for the contest, and both got picked in the final group of 5 winners!!  almost didn't enter, now I am really glad I did - each of my winning entries was awarded a $50 prize - Whoo Hoo!

Heck, I've been storing my equipment on bookshelves for years.  The ones with an open back I glued onto the back of the shelf balsa wood square strips as wheel stops,  The diesels are in a separate book case starting at the top shelf with the switchers down to the last shelf which is the six-axle monsters.  I was totally dissatisfied with the commercial inventory software available.  I ended up making my own on MS Excel© and am quite satisfied with the way it came out. # # #

This winter i have worked slowly with some changes in the yard. Tomorrow there will be an op-session. Then I will see how this works out. The cars and trains are now staged:

Atherton engine terminal will sit on top of the helix to offset the loss of space a helix can cause. This creates 2 issues:
 

This is one of my BN GP20s running on the Tacoma Northwestern Model RR Club's modular layout.  The model is a HO scale P2k that I weathered with an airbrush, Bragdon powders, and weathering pens.  Enjoy!

I recently started replacing the train sheds at LAUPT with the more recent Walther's kits.  Got to playing around in photoshop afterwards:

I really love LA film noir, so I may try a few more of this style perhaps under more controlled lighting next time.

Rob