Has anyone checked the site lately? Doesn't seem good and something sad that will affect many.

I've long been a vocal proponent of Tsunami decoders, and especially their ability to be configured with a working independent brake and coast/idle function.  I even went so far as to remove and sell the Loksound decoders from four Intermountain factory-equipped SD40-2s and use the proceeds to buy replacement Tsunamis.  I'd heard that ESU was working on adding support of similar braking and coast functions, but Tsunamis already had it, so I foolishly thought the best ESU would do was to "catch up".

Sometimes too much research is a bad thing.  After acquiring a copy of Trackside Around the Pennsylvania Cement District, I now feel the need to redesign the cement mill portion of my layout for increased operation.  Oh well, at least nothing's actually built yet, so there's no loss.  But looking over things, I may need to increase my covered hopper fleet.

My original design only included outbound loads.  Further investigation revealed inbound loads of additives to react with the limestone, as well as, coal to fuel the kilns.

So I model the C&O in HO in the late summer early fall of 1943, in the New River Gorge.  As part of this I model Quinnimont WV.  As such i have a lot of C&O buildings most of which are laser cut kits  (thanks BTS) the issue is they all need to be painted in the C&O triple grey paint scheme.  Featuring three grey colors all in the green grey range.  I have back burnered the paint for a while now but it is holding me up.