Last Saturday I had the pleasure of visiting a neat, HO double deck, Great Northern layout here in the Twin Cities. Attached are a few photos I took that while not showing a train did illustrate some great, midwest scenery and techniques to simulate continuing a road into a backdrop, a lake side scene and a few industries.

Enjoy, 

Barry

First let me apologise for the poor quality of my diagram. I can't work out how to do straight lines on the drawing software I've got. Hopefully I can explain myself. 

I have some news that the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago has some items being auctioned off. I am actually quite disappointed at this as they have been there since they opened (I believe). Below are photos of the items and links to the websites. I am not sure what everyone else thinks about this though in my opinion i don't think it should happen. (not that I know what we could do)

Over the past month I've done some experimenting with JMRI and feel comfortable with most of the programs' operations features, however, I've hit a small snag developing a switch list for the Greenfield Ethanol portion of my layout.

All moves within the plant will be conducted by a track mobile. A local will set-out and pick-up cars on track GE3.