This is a photo of my layout on 8/31/12. I have moved onto putting ground cover down and starting to do the vegetation(Lichens on the mountains and trees made out of golden rod weeds and such.)

Proposed Path to WIFI Open Standards

    A engineering friend of mine once told me: "Standards are so popular that everyone has their own.." I think he was right!  

If this is the first if of my posts you are reading please read my other posts first.  Start at the beginning as it were.

i built my first slip switch last summer.  Using a Fast Tracks #8 double slip switch jig I built two single slip switches and two turnouts.  These were the first bits of track I'd ever built by hand.  I was truly impressed.  So much so that I decided I'd build all my turnouts from now on. 

My room for modeling the railroad is only 9' by 11'6" and has two doorways both swinging into the room. So I decided I would run the trains up around the ceiling above the door level.

This will be more of a treatise in theory, not reality, as we are still trying ops sessions to test the concept.

In the real world, things have changed significantly with the introduction of taconite production.  I will focus on natural ore shipping, as it was the mainstay of ore shipments in the 1950s.

Milt

Looking for cardstock train buildings, acces

To All: Pictured in the center is Melzie Simmons, the grandfather of my wife, on her mother's side. I do not know when the photo was taken, but possibly in the 1940's. The Augusta RR was a shortline located in northern Arkansas that was still in business in 1982. Does anyone know if the Augusta RR still exists? Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

I started this journey by calling it A Beginner's Beginnings.  This has led me to to shorten the name to The B&B Railroad. With this in mind, I was contemplating about what would be the best industry to model.  I thought, "What starts with a b.....BEER starts with a B, and I like beer!!!!!! Hmmm, what else......BREAD, I also like bread!!!!"  This should work.

  My first wireframe tree turned out "OK", but not really having the airiness that I wanted for an Alder.  Plus I made it too wide with the canopy.  It looks more like an Oak to me.  Maybe an Oak with a skinny trunk...

  I was also limited with my color selection of leafy material, but I can probably correct some of that with an airbrush.