It's been four months since my last update and in that time I've made decent progress on the Area H Spur. Most important was constructing the spur lead/staging track. As you'll notice in the photos, my aim was to use lightweight materials for the layout base. Simple steel brackets screwed into the walls and a coroplast (1/4" corrugated plastic sheet) serving as the base material.

Well here it is April and finally jumped in to backdrops wile this is not the final work on this here is a video on what I did and how I worked out what I will be painting. Also a look at two bridges that will be model on the layout. Looking at the prototype and and the beginning work on the layout. Hope you enjoy.

Mike Deverell

The TwoHats Lumber Company (THLC) is the logging branch on my Nicholas & Ashley Creek RY.  It started out as an independent logging railroad to server the TwoHats Lumber Co. Mill in Angela's Landing.  But the N&AC purchased it and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the N&AC.  Now the N&AC is in turn owned and operated by the C&O.

Every so often one needs an absolute position detector, rather than a block detector. The best I’ve used employ their own light source, but older designs use Cadmium Sulphide (CdS) photocells and depend on ambient light in the room. Both have driven me crazy with their limitations. This article describes a new design, using ambient light “seen” by the detector in two places – typically between the rails and just to the side of the track.