I have been practicing my CAD skills over the past few years, and recently, I decided to design freight cars, detail parts, and other models. As an N scale modeler, I have been involved in the hobby for many years now and have noticed that there is a certain limit manufacturers reach when producing models: only a certain amount of new models can be researched, CADed, tooled, manufactured, and released every year.

Hello everyone. 

Something i've been putting off has been backdrops. An important feature of a model railrad. A friend of mine doesn't really like the photo backdrops as he says it takes away from the modelled portion of the layout. But as one of the backdrop providers says on their website, a backdrop is a model too. 

I'm proficient with Adobe Photoshop and with editing I can produce a nice backdrop with high quality images, if I have them. 

I thought I would start a blog on my attempts to model a modern shortline railroad in limited space.  I live in the UK so any research I do is all web-based. 

I have been modeling North American Railroads on and off for 25 years or so but have never managed to complete a layout, hopefully now is the time!  

Inspired by Lance Mindhiem, Mike Confalone, and Jack Hill I am modeling a small single industry layout, something I can complete to a standard I would be happy with. 

hello fellow railroaders figured i would get the best exppsure for a new idea and just registered and found a blpg possible so first post with what you can expect from me in a couple days