As I was getting ready to make some significant changes to an old Athearn SD9, I decided to document a little history about this unit and another one on the layout. These are the first two diesels built back around 1980 for my free-lanced railroad.

We knew we had to move sometime before June as we had only taken this apartment on a temporary basis. Hence, I built the baseboards so that I could break them down easily. Most of the rail joins were done by soldering the rail end to some printed circuit board. Two of the joins were a bit tricky. One was on a curve and the other on a grade so I tacked these down so that I could take them up easily. Here is the railroad ready to go.

Eastern Jackson County Mainliner Model Railroad Club Train Show and Swap

Saturday, April 27, 2013, 10 am-4 pm

Admission Fees:

    - Adults $4.00*

    - Children 12 and under are free

I have been silent, but here continues the expansion of my cubicle railroad.  At first I didn't want to block access to my cube, but now I just want my trains to go around! Sure, the shelf can lift up, but its too much work, so it is a duck under to get into my cube.

See more here:

http://www.digitaltrainlab.com/2013/01/cubicle-access-trains-trains.html

Here starts a recap of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway, known by Railroaders as The Missabe, as it exists in my basement. 

A little progress I achieved this weekend.

I finally fixed the steel-trestle on the plaster abutments with 2k glue and spray-painted the trestle in flat black.

  I am a licenced electrician, (retd). I had my own electrical contracting business for 26 years.

  I will gladly answer any electrical questions, if I can.

  If I can't answer, I will make sure that I find someone who can.

Took these photo's of Western Pacific caboose #657 at Nevada State Railroad Museum, in Carson City, Nevada. Though You Guy's might want to see the details on this class of caboose.

Enjoy

This is My Buddy's 18" gage, 12" to the 1', Mine layout. It is located in Norther Nevada, on a 40 acre ranch. As you can see it's a point to point layout. Main line is about 40' long. No timetable. Full one way, empty the other. All equipment is operational.

Photo's of real tracks that I have come across in My wanderings...