Hello,

 I'm new to MRH and so far it looks like a great site full of information and tips.

What I'm wondering is if anyone has a suggestions on what to use for red brick paint. I'm building a station for a friend, but I can't seem to find any good-looking brick paint. I have some Tamiya flat red paint but that is far too red to look anything like brick.

I had promised to show more of the Texas Western Model Railroad layout and this time I will take a trip to Colorado and New Mexico for a little narrow gauge.  The standard gauge interchanged with the narrow gauge at Alamosa and much of the track there is 3-rail as it was in the prototype.  

While cleaning and sorting through the usual modeling clutter over the holidays, I came upon a 101 Track Plans for Model Railroaders by Linn Westcott and started flipping through the pages. This is the fifth printing printing (1967).  I had the fourth printing (1963) but lost it while pursuing one of the many paths that life brings .

Anyway, I got to thinking about how many of Linn Westcott's track plans have been started, built and/or finished throughout the years.

So here is the question I am posing to the readers out there:

I've recently decided to temporarily suspend work on my layout before I got too far along in order to fix up the mostly unfinished basement space where the layout is located - patch & paint the drywall and install a suspended ceiling (2x2 grid).  At this point I'm trying to decide on the type of lighting to use.  Initially, I was thinking of using drop-in fluorescent fixtures with twin daylight T8 U-bulbs (6 fixtures), like so: