There are so many topics posted that spur me to start new projects, I decided I had to get at least one "in progress" off my workbench first.  My pulp mill's wood chip storage building was the candidate.  It is built the way all my structures have been: as cheaply as I can manage!  

This 8 X 36 ft layout made appearance at NMRA national in 2000. I donated it to The Greater Baton Rouge Model RR Club. It now has a perment home and new operators.

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As I continue to pull together tatters and bits of what, sometime within the next 20 years, will be a Pacific Northwest short line of the 1980s, I decided to apply a well-known trick for establishing a time and place: make some signs!  (I have watched the Hollywood folks create atmosphere in filming locations by adding signs, and have seen that this trick works well in 1:1 scale as well as on model railroads).  Since this particular sign is going to be on a road near the parking lot for my pulp mill, I decided maybe a beer sign would be a good investment, and since it is the Pa

I went for a walk this morning to take a look around by the crossing by my house and then the gates dropped and the lights were flashing and all that wonderful stuff and so I guessed it was either a VIA or GEXR train coming through, so the locomotive was either going to be a F40 or a P42 (VIA) or GP38AC/SD40 lashup (GEXR) but instead it was an SD45-2T painted full southern pacific lettering! I thought I was seeing a ghost (a very lost one at that) where on earth did it come from? Sorry no pictures couldn't pick my jaw up in time

To All: Wrisely Papers is a newly built custom kit that Dave Capron  recently completed for

          his Great Lakes Northern layout.

         Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St.Louis Rail Group Layout

I know this most likely been here before but, what methods are being currently used to simulate dents in gondolas, hoppers, box cars, etc?

Many thanks

Larry

To All: I just got back from the layout. Set some railroad and street signs. Also ran a few

          diesel locomotives. I have about 48 diesels that are DCC equipped. With 20 rail-

          roads in my chosen era in E. St.Louis, it takes a lot of them! Fortunately I already

          had most of the roads needed in DC locos. Being Atlas and Kato, they are easy

Hey guys. Was wondering if anyone had any recomendations for a power pack to control only the lighting on my layout. I have been using an MRC tech 4 witch has been fine up till now. When I try too add more lights it goes into overload mode and shuts off. Should i just get an additional pack or is there one out there that will do all the lights by itself? Thanks for any input.

The BQR has made a couple of major steps forward since last posting: