It's that time again!  Sorry, I'm outta town and can't photograph this certain locomotive that would be just perfect in this category!  Which loco, you ask?  It's a secret!

What do you guys think of a standing workbench? I have one now at 48", and it's great for rolling stock kits, mechanical repairs, DCC decoder installations, and I have my layout PC there as well. I'm thinking I will eventually need a sitting workbench though for more time-intensive and detail-oriented tasks, but I want to build a new standing workbench as well, since it's easy to grab something, bring it over, work on it for a bit, go back over to the layout, etc, without having to sit and stand and sit and stand over and over again.

So, the last few months have been interesting. I got laid off in March, found a new job in April and started working again in May. All this during the Covid-19 lock down craziness. I am feeling very fortunate to have gotten through this stretch relatively unscathed. And, during all this, we have managed to keep the railroad project moving forward.

I had a poorly designed, too-big model railroad taking space in the basement which was piling up junk on top of it and was getting nowhere so I decided to start over. For several stories I've written in school and on my own time I developed a setting I really like so I knew that any model railroad I did would be set in that setting, which has a nice aesthetic of an anachronistic mix of 30's and 70's technology as well as few paved roads, dense forest, reliance of river transportation, and impromptu, casual, improvised structures and facilities.