Chris Palmieri is the Author and Photo taker of this story.  He and his dad provide the "Rest of the Story" with their great Railroad Pictures.  Please note the Heritage Cars in front of the old station. Story and Picture follow the one posted picture.

I will be building the walthers ford stamp plant. Will post pic as I go along. Any help I will take.    

At long last I sit down and write the story of my layout, the N-Scale Hudson and Hartford. It has been a long time in coming and there are still many things that need be worked out, created, designed and tested.

If I can engage in some self-aggrandizing for a brief moment, it's a happy day in the McNab basement. One year ago construction began on my Iowa Interstate Grimes Industrial Track layout.  What a difference 365 days can make...

May 22nd, 2011

May 22nd, 2012

Those of you who have read some of my post know that I'm a dyed in the wool freelancer. You also know that I don't really "get" the fascination that some guys have with modeling particular prototypes down to an exact blade of grass.  When guys start off a description of their layout with something akin to " I'm modeling the second subdivision of the fourth division of the ninth galaxy of XYZ railroad on Oct.15th 1955 at 12:01 PM when the temperature was 58 degrees and the relative humidity was"...blah blah blah....  it sort of irritates me.

As some of you may have read in the past, I am developing a fictional shortline that runs between Plainville, CT (central) and New London, CT (southeastern).  I have the route planned out (in my head) and most of the industries have been visualized and their locations along the line determined.  The next step for me is to figure out how trains will operate along the mainline.  I am modeling "current era" in HO scale.  I don't have a track plan, which I know would be helpful for all of you to vis

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last set of track plans, I think I have managed to get closer to what I want to build. The main difference from my previous track planning efforts is that I went back to the prototype to see what I could learn from it.

Last weekend I attended the FREMO regional meeting at Hanau near Frankfurt.

I'm still grinding ahead on the pulp and paper mill, and of course, the railroad equipment to sustain it.  In contrast to recent reports that the Olympic Peninsula's Seattle and North Coast Railroad has ceased operation, it can, in fact, still be found hanging on by a minor corporate thread in service to the wood products industry in the nation's far Northwest.  A quick snapshot at the Crown Z mill would seem to indicate that both the railroad and mill are stuck in the early 80s (there are even nearby billboards advertising some of the hottest current TV shows - Mia

Hi All,

Will be conducting another chat session today at 1400 (2:00pm - around an hours time) AEST via Skype.  This session will hopefully have a few MRH members on so we can test out Skype - Video Conferencing and have a chat about each other layouts and share some ideas.

Hope to see a few people there, I'll hopefully be able to give everyone a tour of the JL&T.