I'm living in Utah now and miss my home in the South.  So I thought I'd model August, Georgia in the 110 degree summer heat, along with a little humidity, just so that I don't get homesick.

The Cornhill and Atherton is born……..

Christmas seems to be the time that I make most progress, so the chainsaw layout has been chain sawed and I finally make a start on the main event. Although I now have a dedicated railroad room it’s only 11 x 8   (space is at a premium in the UK). So after months of investigation and thought I settled on a 2 deck arrangement linked with a helix.

On my last layout (many years ago) I used spade lugs like that below, along with the "traditional" barrier type terminal strips to organize my wiring.  It worked well, so I plan to use that system again.  In my usual overkill fashion, instead of doing a single crimp on the lug, I did two crimps, one near each end of the metal inner barrel.  It held the wires tenaciously, with not a single failure.

Yesterday I went to the Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln New Hampshire to video and Photograph a 0-4-0T wood burning steam locomotive. I planned on making it a day trip which would take Me three hours round trip to drive up plus spend about an hour at the railroad.