I was going crazy trying to find something inexpensive and easy to use for tunnel walls especially since they would be mostly covered up and then this idea came to me. This is simply a pattern I found on the internet printed on plain paper and glued to styrofoam walls. These are a couple quick pics I snapped with my iPhone.

I have several of the woodland scenic molds and several that I made myself years ago. I am looking for a handful of new ones. The woodland scenic molds I have are really stiff. They are great for making castings and then using hot glue after they cure to attach them. My older home made molds are soft. I like placing the molds in place while they are still pliable and so they adhere to uneven cliff faces and such.

What I am looking for is who makes some softer molds that I can pour and bend around contours while they are still pliable?

A friend asked me the other day if I remembered an HO structure called the 2x4 Cafe (or maybe, Betty's 2x4 Cafe), and I seem to have some vague recollection along those lines, but a quick web search didn't turn up anything.

Anyone remember such a structure?

I have a strong preference for steam engines, but have collected lots of diesels as well. So lets say I will model that transition era were both were utilized. I am also not a strict time frame person that feels a need to model any particular era. I just like the looks of model trains, particularly the highly detailed ones that have come out over the past 15 years.