This weekend’s ops session was a blast! It was a lot of fun (and nerve-racking) to finally share my vision of a pacific northwest shortline with other like-minded modelers. The session ran very smoothly which was great seeing as it was the first time I’ve hosted such an event. I ended up with a number …
Last night’s episode of the Second Section Podcast was a lot of fun! Thanks again to Andy Dorsch and Mike Ostertag for having me on. I’ve included a link to the episode below. It is a marathon of a show, but there was a lot of great discussion along the way. At about the 1:29:00 …
In recent days I’ve been able to lay down the most basic, base layer of scenery on the Sandpoint portion of the layout. Obviously, I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me before the scene is complete, but I’m happy with the results so far. I’m modeling late winter/early spring which can be very …
Scenery continued to progress in the Sandpoint area of the layout as rubber rocks by Cripplebush Valley Models were glued into place. I like using these pre-made rocks for large areas of rockwork as in the past I’ve found it difficult to create a convincing rock face by piecing together smaller molds in a puzzle-like …
I was able to get quite a bit of work done over the holiday break. (quite a bit for me anyway) The reason being that I had invited/begged and pleaded with Isaac Fabris to come over to help me get my ProtoThrottle up and running and the threat of having another modeler in my basement …
Small update today, but an important one as I am finally getting a start on scenery! The plan for most of the layout’s topography is to shape green, open cell florist foam into the rough shape I need and then to blend those pieces together with the benchwork using trimmed down sheets of plaster cloth. …
For those who have been following my progress for a while, you know that I had an ESU CabControl system which I really liked… at first… DCC has always been a bit of a mystery to me. With F Keys and CVs and the like. The technology is sound and allows for a great deal …
I took two weeks off this past Christmas to try to get some significant work done on the model railroad and I am pretty happy with the progress I made. I got all of the track laid down in the Usk Washington portion of the layout and I completed the mainline run on the MFR …
A friend in the hobby pointed me to the February issue of Railfan & Railroad where the POVA is featured on the cover of the magazine! The article itself is very cool and very informative. I learned a lot I did not know about the railroad’s history. I also finally got a good, clear sense of day-to-day …
As my Instagram and YouTube activity goes up I’ve been ignoring this blog a bit. What I am not ignoring however is my layout room. Construction continues even as the weather gets nicer and the great outdoors calls to me. I’m going a bit slow, a bit deliberately, but I am happy with the progress I’ve made thus far. …