As I wrap up my day working on the railroad, I find myself with nothing but smiles and a feeling of accomplishment!  For the first time in my model railroad life, I have taken a week of vacation from work and have devoted myself to a week of model trains!  Yesterday, Ken Rickman and I spent the whole day working on his Danville and Western Layout and from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm got alot accomplished!  From trackwork to scenery work and everything in between, we had a lot to show for our e

The Corps of Engineers has been hard at work restoring the old stream out back of Elwood's place. Folks started fishin' (the DNR re-stocked the stream) and swimmin' right away. There's some environmental work to be done with land contouring and trees being planted, but it's a start. Even the new 'facilities' out back got approval from the county.

I am about 7/8 finished with my rock carving of the first section. This has been a fantastic learning experience. And yes, I have redone most of my first attempts!. So what have I learned you may ask?

1. Pictures, pictures, pictures!!! Have lots of pictures of the kind of rocks you want to carve. Thank you Joe for that bit of advice. 

2. Facet surfaces. The gentleman on this forum who does a Civil War dated layout created a video on rock carving and when he talked about rock facet faces, a huge light bulb went off in my head.

Hello guys this will be my blog of my version of The Huron Terminal. I will be building this in the room upstairs of my house. I will be making my own turnouts using a jig and all track will be handlaid. I hope I can meet some of the standerds that are on this web site. I have been working on it for a week now and got the bench work done and started to lay some track to day.

Over 200 videos from the 1980s to the present. I just redesigned my youtube channel. Tell me how you like it. Please "Comment" and or "Like" on the videos if you like them.

http://www.youtube.com/user/dreambuilders48808?feature=mhee

Thanks,

Rob Teed

This is my first post on MRH.

Please be merciful

These are designs I have come up with for my new layout base.

1 & 2 both will have lift up sections at the door.

My biggest problem has been the aisle space.

Which one would you choose?

1.

Okay... Amherst is big. You kind of come  to grips with that about building #3....out of 4. 

It's almost midnight here and I don't even have all of the photos from today edited down - you're going to get what I have in sort of a free association thing. I was just snapping stuff I thought looked good or interesting, taking pictures without necessarily taking names.... 

So, starting in the comments, here we go....

Athearn introduced it's new Genesis locomotive at the Amherst Railway Club's huge show in West Springfield, MA.

A GP38-2, it includes railroad specific details, including wide and narrow spaced radiator fans, a Canadian National Safety Cab, oil bath filter, split radiator grills, ditch lights (CN), snow shields on the air intakes, and different blower sizes. 

The first four models are Southern Pacific (L-window), MoPac, CN (Safety cab), and Southern (High Hood). 

Delivery is expected in late 2012, price was not specified.

A short comment about the new Walther's Offline Structures.  For the past several years all we see, to a great extent, is off line structures coming form Walther's.  This company through its Cornerstone models has been for a long time the backbone of the hobby when it came to online structures.  Many of the great models they sold are no longer available and we see very few online structures coming.  

Hi,

here are two calenders to grab for free. Both featuring US-railroading.

The first one from Peter Höhn:

http://www.cpfs.mpg.de/~hoehn/kalender2012.pdf

Diesel and steam, some text in german.

The second one from me:

http://www.modellcom.blogspot.com , only pics, only diesel power...

Peter