After being out of town for a few days and having thought over my options for 3D printers, I've finally got a printer in the mail and should be delivered any day now.  That printer is the Creality3D Ender 3 V2.  It's the best printer that seems to meet my requirements and offers a balanced set of features that will be useful for printing a variety of different objects, at least on paper.

If not having regular ops sessions is one of the lemons of life lately, then being able to operate your own layout is definitely the lemonade. After all the setup required for one of my typical sessions, it's all over in a bit over 3 hours during one evening. Reminds me of a holiday dinner: the eating only takes a small fraction of the prep and cooking.

There is also an continuation episode after this one

In today’s episode, I am starting the wiring of my t-trak modules. At this point it is still a rough concept, but I will show you my current progress. The goal of this project is to build a complete loop of track that I can setup and take down in a day that will allow me to run trains with DCC.

Just A quick update. I had an idea that I wanted to see on the layout, if you been following I am building a larger layout and always am looking for some help on projects. This one fell into a project that my friend Mike Whiteman.

Here are my Locomotives on my layout, also talking about Bingham's, they had it all at one time, Shays, large Steam, small Steam, Electric big and small and Diesels.

Hey guys, just though I'd see if anyone's going to be at the Bowling Green, Kentucky train show Saturday. If you are, come on up and introduce yourself. Will have a "Jacob still plays with trains t-shirt and a Amsoil cap on. Mr. Nolan's even gonna be there too!

This is my idea of a C&O area in West Virginia.  Structures are scratch-built.

Photos in the next post below.

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