Was in Orrville OH visiting my mother for Mother's Day. We took in the Orrville National Train Day event. Cool mom, huh? Took a bunch of pictures that may be helpful to anyone modeling the area:

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In this post, we give you a glimpse into the process we use to manufacture the MRServo slow motion turnout controller.  While the techniques are vastly simplified from that used by high-volume electronics manufacturers, the same basic steps still apply.

While steam locomotives are completely outside of my normal modeling type and era (modern CSX), I have a long held fascination with Shay Locomotives in particular and logging lines in general.

I therefore couldn't resist the opportunity to buy a Keystone Locomotives 2 Truck Shay Kit on our local auction site.

Worked on installing the water tower today.

First mounted it on a piece of foam core as a base and painted a base coat of earth color.  I used foam as foundation for small hill and will add to it and cover with vegetation later.

When I first put it in place was a bit to close as the fill pipe would hit the engines, and had to move it back a bit.