“Modeling the Northern Central with a Twist”
I recorded my presentation and have posted it on YouTube. If you weren’t able to see it live it, here it is!
Turns out I’ve been modeling Strasburg all along…
Some of my earliest and warmest railroad related memories had to do with visiting the legendary Strasburg Rail Road. A recent arrival made me realize that I’ve secretly been modeling with almost every layout I’ve built. Let me explain…
The Great Flood of 2016
I wanted the next post on the site to be about the awesome progress I’ve been making on Phase 2 and 3 of my Windsor St layout expansion, but that’s not going to be the case. It’s going to be about the flood and drying out that occurred in my basement on Feb 24, 2016.
The NCR Shelf Has Been Re-homed
A rather big change came to my basement recently: the NCR Shelf layout that I had built has moved on to a new home with my friend Josh.
Shelf Layout Engineering Report on The Railwire
I was just discussing the future of my shelf layout, and was asked if there was an ongoing build thread on the Railwire. Well, there is. http://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=26704.0 It’s been a long time since I’ve updated it, but I wanted to link it up here for posterity.
I took third place in the 2015 Eastern Seaboard Models Facebook photo contest
Eastern Seaboard Models makes some really great cars (including an X58 boxcar that I STILL laud over my HO modeler friends). They also have a yearly photo contest, and for the third year in a row, I got a spot on the podium.
Trying a different photo technique on the NCR Shelf
Most of the time that I shoot something on the shelf layout, it’s done either using my ten year old Canon A520 or an iPad. The other night, however, I wanted to see what happened if I shot the layout the way I would the real thing using my railfan rig and DSLR. This photo is […]
Mounting Slide Switch Turnout Controls Anywhere
Micro Slide Switches are a great way to control N scale turnouts, but they’re tough to solidly mount when you’re using something soft as your scenery base. I’ve developed a trick to solve that problem.
Cambria and Indiana Visitor
My friend Ben stopped by with one of his new acquisitions: a Cambria and Indiana caboose. We were doing some work on it and snapped a portrait on the NCR shelf.
August 2013 Photos of The NCR Shelf
Now that I have some ground cover and trees in, 1/4 of the layout is starting to look like something. Here are a few photos of it.