Does anyone have detailed tips, schematics, plans or photos to share that would be helpful in constructing the Campbell Covered Bridge kit?? I have an old kit probably from the 70's and the instructions are lacking schematics.

Thanks for the help.

After fixing my problem with getting my locos up a 2% + grade (it was never consistent for the entire run) I then saw another aspect of my original plan that I never really loved. At that point I had my loco run up hill about 4 inches over the course of 8-10 feet or so but coming back down hill was done inside another tunnel on the opposite end of the layout in about 3 feet. Needless to say it was a steep hill downward though a few tests showed that locos would not fly off the track or even move that much faster so it was doable but I didn't love it.

I have continued the journey of searching for natural products to use on my layout.  My last blog demonstrated the use of natural material for tree armatures and for foreground quality bare trees.  Today I was in the field and found grasses.  I cut off numerous tips and found a few uses that many might find useful.  Here is what they look like from the field

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Has anyone out there scratch built a small HO scale rail served stock pen, if so do you have plans you would be willing to share? I have built the Walthers (kit bashed) stock pen kit, but would like to build a small one for a spot on my layout. I looked all over the internet with no luck.

Richard