Good Morning, fellow modelers:

I'm always interested what model railroaders think about this or that.  Jeff Schultz and friends popped up
while on a search for another subject in Google, and it centered around the disconnects that are inherent
with a typical N-trak layout.  each module is a work unto itself, and most often looks like it. 

Well I am continuing to work on my Tum-A-Lum Lumber hardware store. I just picked up the last handful of details to finish the downstairs so I hope that next Friday I can be showing you my finished interior...well my finsihed downstairs....

More stuff on my Oregon Trunk website

I received the Bob Mitchell's structure building video from Fos Scale for Christmas and he uses a really neat looking tool in it.  It's almost like a hand-held version of a short line chopper to be used for cutting angles on stripwood.  It looks like some kind of tin snips, but with a triangular plate with scribe marks for the angles.  Does anybody know what the name of this tool is and where I can get one?  I scanned briefly through Micro-Mark but didn't see it.  Of course, without knowing what it's called, my search may have been less than complete!

Today I feel like raising heck: I see all those beautiful models of a (insert favourite period here) (item) all modeled to the nth degree and awesomely weathered to the nth also. Say a 1900's structure placed in a 1920's era layout. The structure looks like is falling apart already, never mind that it is supposed to be only 20 years old with an almost junk Ford T (that could be brand new at that time frame) parked at front. Does not look right to me. Am I nuts?. Weathering is an art, just has to be done within an armonious timeframe.

(running for cover from the lynching mob)