Hello,

So I've been working on a layout in my basement.  I've constructed some of the benchwork and laid down some track.  Since no one else in my house cares about my hobby, I figured I'd post here and share my progress.   If you like/dislike something, feel free to let me know.

Last weekend I went to the Syracuse train show at the fairgrounds and picked up a structure kit. It's the Ramesy Station that Railroad Model Craftsman had in their magazine back in the early 80's. The vendor had two of them. I picked the "original", board and batten station. He had a second kit that is of the modernized version station with stucco. This weekend I went to the Batavia train show.

I finally completed the control panel for one of my yards.  I am happy with the way it came out, but it was a pretty long journey, and I am sure that I could have used other techniques to make a control panel more quickly.  But, I was intrigued by the thought of making the control panel out of styrene sheet and cutting out the various openings using a Cricut Explorer cutting machine.

As many of you know I previously converted the room lighting on my railroad from track lighting using halogen lights to LED using the Michael Rose designed boards available through Bill B.  You can see information on that conversion HERE.