I designed and built the Nicholas & Ashley Creek RY to be operated either by myself or with a crew of up to 4 people.  I am several years into construction now and the trains are beginning to run.  I haven't started formal operations yet, but I'm exploring ways and means to get there. 

This blog will chronicle developing operations on my railroad.  I hope to show what I'm doing and discuss operating ideas with others.  Hopefully this blog will be useful and interesting to those thinking about how to operate their model railroads.

Today my wife and I had the pleasure of visiting Neil Erickson's Umauma Railway ( Neil's Blog ) just outside of Hilo Hawaii. Neil is a long time friend from this forum and this is the sixth of my MRH Friends layouts we have been able to visit.

After a picturesque drive down UP the backroads outside of Hilo, we arrived at Neil's farm. It's a quaint location not far from the coast, in an area that used to be vast sugar cane fields.

So can a paper scratch build paper model look like a prototype sugar mill? Sean Glavin one of the crew members finished one part of the Longmont sugar mill.....the warehouse and loading dock this is made from paper not only paper but the out side brick and awning and concrete dock is made from printed paper. I have never work with this media till the 2016 NMRA convention the shed in front of the loading dock is also paper. Sean have done quite a few for his layout. Next time you look at a project you might give paper a try.

Thanks Sean great job.

Mike