When I started designing and building my current layout, I had a list of things I wanted to incorporate into my dream layout but didn't have a prototype in mind to follow.  Not a problem right?

Just added another blog post with background about the Detroit Terminal Railroad that I'm planning. I'm taking elements of the former Detroit Terminal, as well as the modern-day Conrail Shared Assets in Detroit to proto-freelance a model of the Detroit Terminal in the modern era. This post takes a look at the Detroit Terminal Industrial Track, which once formed the eastern end of the real-life DTRR.

I have a stub ended switching yard at the Wilmington, DE, terminus of my model railroad.  It is a compressed version of the P&R/RDG yards.  The era is 1900-1905.  The yard currently has a main track with a runner next to it, one double ended track and 4 stub ended tracks.  To increase flexibility, I would like to convert a stub ended track to an additional double ended track.  There are several options I have come up with in varying degrees of complexity.  I have my own ideas and have solicited some from various people, I thought I would throw out severa

This N Gauge Layout is part of Dixie Rails in the Atlanta GA area. This is the best running N gauge layout I have ever operated on.  It is DCC and not once the whole night that we ran 50 trains did we have one problem due to track of electrical connections.  The owner John Wilson has come up with a system of moving blocks of cars with markers on top that are easy to read for all of us who do not see numbers on N scale cars well.
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