I haven't done as much as I wanted to this month. It's funny how all kinds of people suddenly remember you and have to come visit if you move to Florida. We have had friends and family stay with us since 12/27. Now everybody is gone and I can spend time building the railroad instead of entertaining them.

Anyway, this is what I could get done:

Here are some pics of one of my latest projects.  I am kitbashing Walthers Cornerstone Vulcan Manufacturing kits into buildings for Harlan and Hollingsworth, a shipyard and railcar builder.  I bought one kit an later found another assembled kit at a train show.  I have "disassembled" the assembled building and combined it with kit parts and scratchbuilt roof sections to make the new building.

Things sure move fast now that FEMA is reeling from the criticism it got over the N'awlins Relief Disaster. Not everything is done, but the County Extension Agent has been busy. The well and pump have been certified; and they hired that Pearl woman who runs "The Good Earth" landscaping company to come in and plant trees, ground cover (Elwood doesn't own a mower and sees no sense in buying one) and survey the river bank for some shoring up work later on. 

Anyone have Operating nights on their Logging or mining railroads? Just wondering if its possible to keep several guys happy running trains on a logging railroad. I say this because it would seem logging/mining they may not run on a schedule . More of an "as needed" system. I'm also wondering if I could have a "Convertible" layout. I model in On30 so I'm thinking of "Nesting" HO scale structures inside On30 structures. Then when the HO guys come over I just lift the On30 stuff off the layout and were ready to run in that "small" scale.

The following are excerpts from a 15 page layout proposal I have been developing since the offer my fiance and I placed was accepted on a new home a few weeks back.  Although I will not begin construction for at least a year or two, I am looking for some much-needed criticism on my initial thoughts and ideas.  Although not noted within the proposal, I will have an area approximately 24' x 12' at my disposal; however, these are not final dimensions.  The proposal covers the entire railroad as imagined to date.

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Hello everyone, I’ve been reading MRH for about a year now and really enjoyed reading through the forum and seeing everyone’s layouts. I’m in New Zealand in a small town where I don’t have any connections with other local modellers so it’s nice to still get to see what other people are working on.

A new skyscraper was just added to the Philadelphia section of the S scale Penn Western. I had used some sandstone textured foamcore for the flooring of a food court for the train station and thought that the texture would look good as the siding of a building. So, I designed a 180 foot structure to fill a part of the skyline. After rounding up the parts needed and cutting sections of foamcore, the building actually started out as a kit.

It seemed like it took me forever to finish the tunnel portal and rock cut area in the back of the alcove expansion.  Since I work from the back forward, I needed to complete this area so I can work on installing my gravel plant in the foreground.  I'll be using the Walthers "Glacier Gravel" kit (doesn't almost everyone?) and need to get the sub-roadbed in first so I can get the track and turnouts put down.  Below are a couple of pictures of the area.