What are your sources of junk/ odd parts/ interesting flatcar loads etc...Lets give each other a few ideas we havent thought about.

Gears--I go to goodwill and buy junk watches and take the small gears and misc. parts out of them

larger gears--my dvd player died, cracked it open and grabbed a few larger gears that operate the door and disc drive

miscellaneous steel junk--typewriters are great for this kind of stuff

This is a video that a fellow member of a German model railroad forum posted. He let a camera train run on his layout. The video is almost 33 minutes long, of this the train spends about 30 minutes running through his humongous hidden staging yard. His helixes use a maximum grade of 0.7% to allow him to run trains of up to 9 m (30 feet) in length. If you watch this you will need patience!

Anybody else have the problem on when to "move on" or know when "enough is enough" working on your layout? I constantly have that problem especially when working on landscaping or building structures. Recently I've been foresting the hills next to the backdrop and while adding additional layers / details improves the look I feel like I'm "stuck in the details" and should be moving on.

A little bit from the  31st Mid-Atlantic Narrow Gauge Meet for those interested. Last weekend at Kimberton, PA.

Lots of fun with a variety of people.

This was all quick stuff shot with the phone camera before and after the public time. I really wanted to get more but didn't have the time away from my booth.