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Why does it have to be so $%#$% difficult?
Why on earth does it have to be so #$%#^$ difficult?
I'm in the process of installing and configuring a couple of locos with DCC and sound. This is something I've done in the past, numerous times, but it's been about a year, and I guess I forgot what a pain in the a#$ it is.
Does it need to be?
Everything in this process is painful, and no where is there sufficient, easy to use documentation.
UP opens a new intermodal terminal
A belated thank you
To my shame, I neglected to post this yesterday (Memorial Day here in the US), but I wanted to take a moment and thank all of our veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice. Nothing we regularly discuss on this forum compares to the importance of the freedom you purchased on our behalf.
Gratefully,
Joe Atkinson
Another Hobby Shop Gone
And not because the owner called it quits.
I patronized this store when I wanted to find something from days gone by. The place was a historical land mark. Near by were the former East Rochester Despatch Car shops that build cars for the NYC.
Bernd
Transfer Terminal Kitbash -- Part 1
I first saw noticed this building 11 years ago while riding the train from Toronto to Ottawa. You get to spend a while looking at it during the station stop at Brockville (the VIA station is on the right). And of course if you're a modeller you think: That cries out to be kitbashed out of Pikestuff!
False Front Building Kit Part 1
I had previously posted on a kit project I was going to build, but was side tracked on my display shelf, so now back to the false front kit. To refresh you all the kit is a Bar Mills kit called "Witzingers Washboard Co.". I plan on calling it something else though.
After a couple of reads through the instructions, I think we're ready to dive in. The first section will be the building on the left, shown in the box cover pic here.
Putting the magic back into the hobby?
Over the last decade or two, there's a growing sense among those who have been in the model railroading hobby for some time that the hobby has lost a lot of it's "magic".
There's also a sense the hobby publishers are just "filling pages" and lack a real strategy for where we need to take the hobby next.
So how can we be a part of the solution? What's missing, and how could we perhaps get it back - or better yet, kindle some fresh new magic?
Video Tour
First attempt at video of my layout. 3 parts on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amzr4zIvSAA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=19A5hDiHx6g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXB-b5qXZKw
I hope to have a shakedown operating session in June and a more completed scenery of the West End by that time. Hopefully, we'll be able to produce another video at that time. Enjoy.
False Front Building Kit
The next buildings to do is a false front building kit from Bar Mills. It's their "Witzingers washboard Co." kit I plan on making into the United Fruit Company warehouse and offices. I'll try and remember to do photos as I go through the building stage. But first a read through the instructions and inventory the box.
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