“How did you spend your weekend?” asked one friend of mine at the work. “Nothing special, among other things  i was watching videos in the youtube about RR modeling”  I said.  “And?”  he insisted.  I started talking about and I didn’t realise that I was talking more and more passionate about all the nice things I had seen and learnt. A second friend participated and both together encouraged me to talk.

After a couple of years I have finally built into my spare room for the Lipakovo line, a Russian TTe narrow gauge logging line. Discussion about the track plan is HERE.

The first TOMA competition was the impetus for actually building a layout rather than just thinking about it, and the modules I have designed are very lightweight (the subject of another blog post to come...)

The main requirements for building into the room were:

Progress continues on the two modular sections of Siskiyou Line 2 that I plan to have on display in the MRH booth at the Kansas City NMRA National convention Train Show Aug 10-12.

Here is the track plan of what we will have on display:

Progress on the modules in the next post below.