My continuing blog about building an 'affordable' small switching layout in the living room/dining room/kitchen, ie little real estate for a Model Railroad. ;)

Benchwork is sorted with foam core and cork roadbed, Fascia and everything painted to match and now some of the track work laid. I haven't purchased my DCC system yet, looking at the NCE PowerPro and my first DCC locomotive, the expense being directed to trackwork, mainly turnouts. But I had my first DC run. Here's a few pictures... not the best quality, but pictorial progress in action. :)

These pics are from Thursday during the National Narrow Gauge Convention, from the Contest Room and one layout I visited. They are in no particular order, nor do they represent all the models entered or even present at the time I was there.  Most if not all are just plain stunning in person. These will give you a snapshot, I'll add the rest as comments to follow. I hope you enjoy them. (Most you can click on and get the larger pic) --Geoff Bunza

First off thanks for all the comments to my first 2 blog entries! 

This came to the QAT mail here at MRH. Rather than make Bruce wait until November for an answer, we're putting it out here for readers to help:

Does any manufacturer offer HO diesels without DCC or DCC-ready, that are lower priced? -- Bruce S.

Let's concentrate on new, currently available models. Bruce didn't offer any restrictions on size or era.