Got my butt in gear.  Starting to build the "Peco NB-55 Well Type Turntable".  Thought I'd document my progress in this entry.  By all accounts is supposed to be an easy plastic kit to build, which is good since I've never been really happy with any plastic kit I've ever built.   It is an armstrong model, and I intend to leave it manual.  Guess that makes it a "fingerstrong" turntable?

As I go along, if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Earlier this month I received a couple of photos from my friend Brian of the Kankakee River Bridge that I had designed and printed for him.  I gave him a pile of parts (2nd batch shown, parts for three spines delivered earlier):

And then I said, using my best Hedley Lamarr voice:  "Now go do your vodoo, that you do, so very, very well!

Here is what came out. sitting in its final resting place on Brian's layout:

Greetings ,i am getting  into building a small n scale layout  .what i am trying to build will be a 16" x 14" set up for inside a display cabinet.i would like to incorporate  a switch or two but dont think that will happen.my question is can i do something other than a circle layout?

Is there a smaller radius curve track  that might work ? Flex track?i have a small yard steam loco and think that will make the tighter turns but am not sure about rolling stock.any advice is appreciated.thank you.

The Pacific Northwest Railway Archive recently uploaded some BN documents, one of which is an annual station report. It lists every station on the BN and the carload earnings for that station for that year.

I'm looking at the 1970 Annual Station Earnings and I'm trying to understand the difference between cars forwarded and cars received.