Sadly, it has come as a shock to me, very unexpected, but via another website http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6049 , I found out that Steinjr, from Norway, author of some great trackplans in MRH, and advisor to many with trackplan questions, or other modeling topics, has passed away suddenly, age 47 , leaving behind his wife and young children. 

"Did you ever sit and ponder, sit and wonder, sit and think?"

So I've been monkeying around with this project using it to learn how to better use my laser cutter.  Much progress has been made, as I climb each learning curve.

Yes, the project load here is lively!

Dave Primeau's HO scale layout depicts the CPR's Lyndonville Subdivision and the B&M Connecticut River, a line running from Newport, Vermont to White River Junction, Vermont. The Maine Central,St. J&LC and Central Vermont railroads all make appearances at the various junctions along the line.

Oct./09/12

I have just been reading a number of blogs, mostly past time and would lie to comment. Some question the cost, it beats buy loco and decoders ($125 + $120 x6). 

               I have a 12 x 15 N scale layout with a dozen locos, sound is terrible to impossible for N scalers. I recently switched from HO to N.

So I sat down to a long project of putting together a box containing five spectrum steam locomotives, each a different make.  It was a wonderful Ebay find, the price was GREAT.  As i try to find screws, I'm discovering some are just out of stock to the point that I can't get anymore.

I was up at Roy's Trains and he has the micro fastener index sitting there and I realize it would be wonderful to have something like that on my bench...and that thought has since evolved into this project!

Here's a first of hopefully many layout updates on my HO Burlington Northern Nelson Subdivision in North Eastern Washington. The layout is based on the prototypical branch of the Burlington Northern From Kettle Falls,Washington to Nelson, British Columbia. The layout is going to be 13x15 feet shelf layout with a peninsula in the middle. The layout is going to depict the 1980's.

CITY OF INDUSTRY LAYOUT Project 02-12

Here is my second project, and it is a departure from my previous plan to begin design on the MP/TP operations in New Orleans, namely the Race St. Yard, and Annunciation St. Passenger Terminal, with some of the surrounding industry which the railroad served, i am still in the very rough planning stage for it still gathering information and maps and photographs of the area for the time period during the war and just afterward, pre-NOUPT era.

How do I post images? I tried and only get little boxes. Please help. Mike