The weekend was spent building a concrete block wall along the front of the house to backfill with drain rock and divert some of the overwhelming amount of rain we had that turned everything into mud around here. Since the concrete takes a week to cure before I bust out the shovel and wheel barrow it seemed like an opportunity to get the layout room some benchwork. 

I just bought a new Sony DSC-WX80 with built in wireless modem. I was always forgetting to upload my pictures at the end of the day and because my railroad is in another building I would not have easy access later in the evening when I typically find the time to work on my website and such. Now all my pictures pop up on my SkyDrive and I can get to them from any machine on my network. It's a 16Mp camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and it takes beautiful pictures. Here's one from today:

I've finally reached the point of needing to build tunnels - the blog entry below shows my portal-painting attempts and roughed in scenery.  It's been a load of fun, and yet another new skill to work on.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-time-for-tunnels.html

So, my next project is to get some cabooses together for my short freight fleet of power, before the rolling stock arrives.

To that end, I have aquired 5 Athearn Cabooses (cabeese?) in IC orange, already decorated.  2 different road numbers out of 5 cabeese is a good start.  So, next I aquired some IC Orange paint from: