We had a great time (well, I did - the rest will have to chime in here).  Folks that brought modules - Mark, Bert, Eric, Adam and myself - Doug came without, :) plus we had two more folks come by to see just what it was all
about (I am sooo bad with names!) I think it was Brian and Allen.

  I got there early at 9:00 to open the room and set up a couple tables and chairs, measure and lay out the space for the Meet-N-March.  The PUD community room is 43' x 34', just in case you're curious.

I finished up two home made track cleaning cars. The design is simple, a 1x2 for the frame, added trucks and couplers, then a cork cleaning pad glued onto a old car weight. The pad slides across the rails, giving them a good wipe. The pad is held in place by two nails, glued to the top of the weight. I added three nuts to give the car more weight.

I used three of these cars. I push one ahead of a loco, then a second car with Liquid Wrench on the pad, then a third car trailing with a dry cork pad. Works great and keeps things running fine.

I have taken the swinging gate out of the door way and replaced it with a twin bridge water crossing of the fox river and a new siding going to the cement plant

Hey everybody, finally got some video of the sounds of the new MRC 1913 sound decoder.  It's mostly a still video right now but does go through some of the basic sounds of the decoder.  This first vid is about the 6 prime mover sounds.  Sorry if the picture is a bit fuzzy but I put the camera up pretty close to capture as much sound as possible.  Will work on better videos in the near future so for now just bear with me as I get accustomed to shooting videos.

I spent the past week painting a backdrop for my model railroad. I was nervous going into the project, but the process was pretty simple and straight-forward and I could not be happier with the results.

After several attempts to "reorganize" my thoughts with suggestions from my last posting, I have come to the realization that efficient and innovative layout design is not my true forte. I am looking for someone who can incorporate the two designs I like best into a practical and efficient layout for reasonable compensation. 

http://youtu.be/l7dR57dzzIE

this past week i changed out the turnouts & added ground throws for cal gas & fertizona. atlas gp38 # 3501 & atlas gp40 #2964 have the switching duties. power for the manifest are 2 kato sd40-2's  bnsf # 6798 & atsf #5073. all power is equipped with digitrax decoders
 thanks for watching & as always comments & questions are welcome.
vinny...aka...bnsf6951

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