Canadians go to their cottages.  New Englanders head for Forida in the wiinter.  Nantucket is full of southerners in the summer.

What happens to model railroading?

My wife and I have spent at least four months a year away from our primary home and my primary railroad for the past five years.  It hasn't been easy, though I have worked out some solutions.

I am in the process of building a new layout and a new workbench.

On my old workbench I had the swing arm lighting, but it always seemed to get in the way or the light was pointed in the wrong direction. I have considered a long florescent tube, but there is no shelf or structure above the workbench (This time the workbench is in a spare bedroom where I have to keep it neat.)

I am looking for suggestions on which lighting you use on your workbench, good, bad, and not so ugly.

Thanks Bill. 

This is my first post. And with it I would like your critiques and suggestions of the track plan I have designed for the new house I just bought.

This layout will be a 12'x12' L shaped switching layout based around 1 industry with a small staging yard on each end.

Laurentian Coated Products is a 292,000 TPY capacity integrated paper mill located in Northeast New York on Lake Champlain close to the Laurentian Mountains of Southern Quebec. Era is contemporary.

I've been out several times in the past year taking measurements of the area I'm modeling. Along with the cars and engines and details like signs, tracks, etc., I want the roads and land to be correct too.