What's everybody using for helix and hidden staging cameras these days?  I think I want to mount my helix camera in the ceiling so the train will be visible at all points. Not sure if that will work, almost have to have the camera in order to see what it sees. May have to put two inside to cover it all. My staging is pretty open, but I might add cameras just to make things a little easier. I prefer to keep it simple. Old-school hard wired one camera to one monitor kind of set up would be fine.  

thanks

Randy

The thread as to the merits of various adhesives relative to trackwork is, as are most posts, very interesting.

As to an adhesive to be used for securing ballast, the Mod Podge vs Matte Medium suggests Matte Medium is the preferred option.  In turn, that prompts me to ask is there a difference between Scenic Express' offerings of Matte Medium vs Liquitex Matte Medium?

Thanks and regards,

Bart

I don't know if Z-Bend is the newest modular standard, but it's in the running. It's also right up there for smallest. Each module has a double track main on opposite sides. There were at least two Z-Bend organizations here at the show (and one of the employees at my favorite train store in Portland, OR was there helping them):

This is a well established modular layout, and I seem to remember seeing them (as well as several of the other clubs) at other NTS's. There can't be that many people who are crazy/dedicated enough to haul their pride and joys several hundred miles in order to hook them up one day, run them three more, and at the end of the third day tear it all down in a semi-mad scramble. You've got to respect the ones that not only come, but do it multiple times. Based on their location, It's likely I personally last saw them in Cleveland in 2014.