I had some fun with Photoshop Elements the other week applying vintage effects to some photos and decided to have a go with some photos from my layout then thought I'd share them here. Theres room to improve and it is kind of sad to suck the colour and vibrance from a scene but was fun experimenting nevertheless.

Luke

Let me start this BLOG entry with this.  Apparently, my wife realized the folly of her ways when she suggested that I could go around the walls of our basement with a mixed use space as a rec room and a train room.  She has again asked me to have a dedicated room for my trains.

The Helix...

Every 180' each set of tracks gets a feeder.  I used short drywall screws to hold the sections together.  No Glue.

So with the mass of railroaders on this site, I feel it would be appropriate to have some sort of a data base available of viewable track plans and maybe a brief description or operations plan. Maybe Joe could answer this; is there a way that plans could be stored and be available to be viewed. The obvious way is for everyone to add them to this or a similar blog, but they would not be searchable that way.

Summer is work season at the Sudbury Division. We operate the layout from September to April each year and then shut down in the spring. After that we use the second Saturday of each month as an all day work session instead of our operating day. This past Saturday was one of those work sessions.

Recently a friend of mine brought over a couple of older proto 1000 GP20s and has asked me to install DCC and sound into them. They are nice locos but are very tight on space. i think i can get a tsunami sound decoder into them but where to put the speaker?  It looks like the only possibile space is to black out the cab windows and put it in the cab. I am really beginning to think that simply replacing the older locos with newer models might be his best bet. I have done speaker installs in cabs before and have not had the results i would like.

And so I have realized it would be well to separate the old blog from this new blog...