My story is kind of hilarious but also sad. Briefly it all happened 22 years ago when my then wife decided she had enough of me and moved out with my collection of HO trains, a collection I started 12 years before that. in the beginning of 2009 my son brought what was left of the tracks, loco's and rolling stock. Obviously after years of lying in a storage shed on the farm there was and still is a lot of damage control to be done, so far I have succeeded in restoring all the electric units and diesels to running order.

I have made my first applications of Joe's Mud scenery and I am very pleased with the results. Instead of doing all the landforms first I have opted on sequencing techniques learned from years of project management. As I progress from right to left in approximately two to three foot segments, I have: open benchwork with roadbed, cardboard strip landforms, taped skin, painted skin, bare curing mud, painted mud, soil and turf. I start each work session by adding more cardboard strip landforms then progress to each step as time and material on hand allows.

It's nice having someone in your ops crew that likes to paint locos and rolling stock. Here's what Joe Brugger did to an undec Athearn blue box bay window caboose.

Charlie

Tomarrow I'm going to drive over 300 miles and am going to 5 Model RR Hobby Shops in 4 states, I had a list of DCC Decoders as what manufacture made what DCC Decoder for what Engine manufactuer. I have a list of all the things I'm getting but I'm buying 7-10 Engine DCC decoders some w/sound and some without and I lost the list and forgot which of 300 bookmarked Model RR sites had the list. The DCC Decoder list shows all decoders made by all manufactuers and which decoders work in which engine.