Something you kit-bashed?

Locomotive (s)?

Rolling stock?

Purchased building (no modifications, as intended)?

Tools that you have found other uses for?

Software programs?

Something you repurposed for your RR?

Charlie

I've held of getting a sound equipped locomotive almost as long as I resisted the move from DC to DCC. I'd seen and listened to locomotives with sound on various videos and at numerous train shows. I wasn't that impressed. Out of necessity the units didn't produce that low bass typical of the prototype and all too often, the sound of the horns and the bell seemed to blend into the engine sound. It all seemed too "toy" like to me.

See how a forty-year-old magazine article inspired my latest layout. I've written a "Layout Tour" blog about "The Mines of Xenon" sci-fi model railroad at https://smallurbanrails.wordpress.com/ complete with spaceships, robots, and dinosaurs.

Layout's not quite done, but wanted to get something posted.

Come on over. Children welcome. Purists beware. :) 

Back in 1989, I interviewed Bob Lunoe who was a brakeman on the Yosemite Valley Railroad beginning in 1942 when has only 19 years old and decades later, still remembering “…every single day”. John Abatecola, who filmed and produced the YouTube video on my layout, has now put together a YouTube video using that interview and a lot of YV photos. It is at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5X3-mP1ozI