Just a quick note to say both the MRH website and magazine perform flawlessly on the Samsung Galaxy tablet. I've had mine for just over two weeks now and haven't had a single issue with it. Not sure if anyone else had done any testing with this particular brand of tablet, but I would highly recommend the Galaxy to anyone who is looking into an Android based tablet.

I model generally steam (Southern Pacific) in the 1920's with some "slop-over" into the 1930's.  I am a TT scale modeler (1:120) which means I have to scratch build just about everything except trucks and couplers (Micro Trains "N").  

I should know this stuff but I get varying information depending upon the source I'm looking at any given time.

progress

So here's a video covering months of work on the alcove presented in minutes through time lapse.  I hope that you enjoy it!

Rick

Here is some pics for a auto and train bridge. It is a combo of a girder and a truss bridge.You can Google at 33.425236 N  78.551787 W .  This bridge is in Myrtle Beach S.C. I know that this bridge has been here for around 50 years. I believe it was originally owned by Atlantic Coast Lines. I do not have any info for it. But it is a neat bridge.

I've been reading and posting the odd comment for over a year now, so it's probably time to start a blog of my own.  I've just put together a small coaling facility.  It's a bit out of the ordinary, so I thought it might be of interest.

It figures.  You go and build a model based on your best guess of what the prototype was, and then you turn up new information to prove that you got it all wrong.

The prototype:

And my original model:

To All: This is a new blog. My name is Elvin Howland from Jacksonville, Florida (previously, Manton, Michigan). I run a business called Layout Concepts. I sell scratch built, kit bashed and kit built kits, paint and letter freight cars and build train layouts. I have a Facebook page called layout concepts that features my work in various categories. My layout is an HO scale double deck one that measures 11' by 21' and is controlled by a Digitrax system. I model 1950-1970 on the layout. The area modeled is E. St. Louis, Illinois.

Here you have a video of Tommy Hood's Canadian Northern.  A freelance HO Scale railroad with hand layed track and many scratch built bridges.