We all have those big projects that stare forebodingly at us. You know the ones we put off, etc. Sometimes, they aren't as big as we thought, and we just need to tackle it one bit at a time. 

I have been starting on structures for my layout and it is slow going, but it has been going well. 

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The day has arrived! We're all set up at the National Train Show in the New Cleveland Convention Center (come see us - we're front and center at the show).

There are  lot of new products here at the show, including some which were just announced today. So, in no order other than the one in which I was able to grab them for photography, here are several of the new items. This is not an exhaustive list by any means - I still need to go by Walthers, for instance.

336 photos today - most of them from the contest room. Yesterday I'd been worried about the low number of models being submitted for judging, today they broke the Sacramento record for most models submitted. I've got a long ways to go to get them all photographed. Photos will be in the comments.

I left the convention early today to go pick up Joe Fugate and Don Hanley from the airport, and Les Halmos and his friend Jean-Francois rolled in from Quebec last night.

Well, I'm still awake, and that YouTube video is about to finish uploading...

I've attached the Covered Hopper clinic handout to this post - you'll be missing Randy's excellent commentary and the question and answer session that took place during the clinic, but I hope you'll find the slide deck informative on it's own.

The video is done uploading, but it's still processing, but it should show up below when it's done with that. Join me on a bumpy tour of the Operations Roadshow modular layout: