Okay, with the demise of Model Railroad News, is there still a place for in-depth model railroad news and product announcements?

If so, what should it look like? How should it be done? How often?

I wanted to open a discussion about bridges on our model railroads and the grades we put in our track work. I am hoping Joe will jump in here to tell us what he did on his layout.  In the prototype do the railroads interrupt their grades for bridges to be built level?  I have heard that heavy downgrade breaking on a bridge can cause rail slippage on the prototype bridge and damage it.  I do not know if this is true or not.

I was just reading another posting on naming locations on a layout and I'm at a loss to name an area in my alcove expansion.  The building on the left is Palmer Asbestos and the building on the right is yet to be named.  When considering names it can or cannot refer to the industry names.  The name of the artist that painted the wall mural is Linda.  I may or may not use your suggestions, but I welcome them and thank you in advance for your input.

    I am a G scale modeler with a front yard layout. At the various holidays, I run my trains for the neighborhood kids. Halloween I ran a modified Bachmann 4-6-0 decorated for the evening. During the Christmas holidays I like to run a Santa train when my schedule allows. The last several years I have run a variety of trains, but mostly a USA Trains passenger set from 2000 that runs well.