Playing with Photo Backdrops
I’ve long been planning to use photo backgrounds, and now that I’ve gotten my printer running again, I started trying some out.
Painting York
I’ve realized that I’m applying Agile software development principles to my layout construction: thinking in terms of sprints, and most important, thinking about always having a “shippable” product. That means sometimes spending a bit more time along the way, but it also means having something in my basement I don’t hate until it’s finished. In […]
Cheap N Scale Buildings From China
I was recently browsing eBay for some of the IHC “Homes of Yesterday and Today”, and came across some N scale buildings I didn’t recognize. Having have been in the hobby for so long, this doesn’t happen often, so my interest was piqued.
MMID SD24s 6250 and 6252
In the mid 80s, the Maryland Midland purchased a pair of former Burlington Northern SD24s. In real life, these engines proved to be short lived on the MMID: being too punishing on their track and ill suited to the railroad’s needs. However, in the alternate reality in which my NCR themed layouts exist, they stuck […]
April 2016 Windsor St Progress Report
I know I’ve been quiet since I got things running around the one loop, so here’s a quick recap on where things sit right now.
DCC Installation in Micro-Trains SW1500s
There are some important precautions that must be taken when installing DCC decoders in Micro-Trains’s SW1500s.
Conrail PUPs on the BANTRAK Layout
I know this is about 3 months late, but during the B&O Museum’s Holiday Festival of Trains, I got a chance to stretch the legs on my four EMD “pups” (end cab switchers) with a coal train.
Some steamy visitors to the real York PA
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a bunch of time looking for good reference photos of York PA in the 80s. While I was doing that, I found a big surprise…
Trains are Running Through Downtown York
Big news on my NCR. I’ve got trains running through the Downtown York section of my Windsor St layout, and I have video.
It takes a lot of little things to build a layout
I’m making great progress on the York section of the Windsor St Yard layout. But some of the progress is on decidedly unglamorous things.