One of the great things about the model railroad hobby is that it has a lot of different aspects to it.  When I get tired of doing the layout construction and/or electrical aspect, I can shift to buildings & scenery.  For the last couple of weeks, I have been working on some of the key buildings within the Union Station area of the layout. Even though I had shifted from doing track & electrical, I ended up having to add an additional passenger track (Track # 4)  to Union Station to provide for mail and postal operations.

Hi everyone!

I came home from my rotational deployment to Korea a couple months ago and got right back to work on the layout.  I have gotten the track weathered and ballast, built a new structure, and started some rudimentary operations.  My fictional little branch of western Oklahoma's regional Farmrail/Grainbelt System is coming along pretty decent.  Although its my first serious layout attempt and thus us fraught with mistakes, its been a lot of fun to build.  Here's a few things this beginner has learned:

i guess having an article to write for MRH does give you some incentive to get things done. So I have been working on Kingsbury Ave this weekend. Heres a sneak peak  at some of the work.

Well they asked and I guess I will step up. MRH asked for articles on small layouts and I guess my 31.5 square foot switching layout qualifies as that. So I sent a message to MRH and got back an affirmative response. This will give em some incentive to get cracking on the railroad. And besides that, its getting towards summer here in Florida which means it'll be too bloody hot to be outside during the daytime. Directly the opposite of you guys up north where you want to be outside in the summer.