Hello,

due to my housemove I had to size down my modelrailway. My new railway room is now about 13x10 feet in size, compared to about 13x13 feet in the old house. As mentioned earlier I sold two of my stations to friends. Here I started with the new benchwork for my new model railway layouts. I used Ikea Ivar cupboard system parts and plywood for the construction. Here a video update I made some time ago.

Here's a few photos of Ashland, a small shelf switching layout built to show off my Brownville and Ashland Railway custom painted locos and stock. All of the locos and most of the freight cars are by Southern Tier Modelworks and the crane was made by Smokebox Graphics. The layout itself is 6ft long by 14" wide with a 4ft fiddleyard and a small run off at the other end to help with switching.

Last month, a two-person crew from TSG Media videoed my layout in High-def. It was a long process…first spending a day shooting with three cameras under the room lights (which seem bright to us but not video cameras which results in much less depth of field) and then coming back a week later to reshoot most of the scenes with LED lights. They then came back after finishing most of the post-production for some additional voice-overs. But the results were worth all of the effort since they produced a real railfan view of my layout.

It has now been uploaded to YouTube at

I know, the title will toss a few over the edge and does break into the realm of click bait. I believe it to be true.