As I can't afford to mantain here a "real" blog, just a note that....

my decision to force me to daily devote 1/2 an hour to my train room have take to some updrade of the situation!
Check here and excuse the poor pictures.

Tonigth I will post a short movie too.

http://valleybeforesilicon.blogspot.com/2011/04/adopting-little-steps-po...

Cheers

Found a little time to work on my Lighthouse/Bridge combo.

Took out the old archway bridge and positioned the newly bashed base for the bridge and layout.

The truss bridge will need to be re-worked to move it back to the position shown below.  Lots of work left on this model but I'm happy with how it is progressing.

I wish I modeled modern N scale. No I mean it, I really do. 

We just returned from Japan, where I was able to ride some trains, do some rail-fanning, and visit a number of hobby shops in Tokyo (although that wasn't the main purpose of our visit). Although mostly Japanese prototypes, the selection of N gauge items were amazing - the range of vehicles, and things like shipping containers were mind boggling.

Unless the sky falls I'm about 3 months away from being able to do operations on the Richlawn Railroad for the very first time.  I'll have probably enough area / switching to engage three operators.  I've belonged to an operating group (North Country Interchange Operating Group - NCIOG) for about a year and we're all either in the building stage or in my case have an operating railroad, but no switching opportunities.  One of the guys in our group (of 7 guys) has an awesome layout and is also working on trying to do operations.