I was volunteered to assemble a DPM kit for my NTRAK club’s fundraiser, and was reminded how much I hate working with DPM kits. BANTRAK, my local NTRAK club, builds a raffle layout each year as a fundraiser. We put together something small, sell some tickets during our big year-end show at the B&O museum, […]
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.
I’m currently working with someone to help refine the phase 2 of my Windsor St Yard layout. The starting point is a questionnaire which got me thinking that I really haven’t explained my overall plan for the Windsor St Yard layout here. So that’s what I’m going to do.
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.
Creating a yard office for Windsor St has been a long undertaking, but now I’m in the construction phase, and things are starting to look good.
Converting the engine terminal from its original use when it was Hagerstown to its current use as Windsor St is one of the bigger scenicing jobs on the layout. This weekend, I made a big step forward on it.
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.
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 […]
I consider myself incredibly lucky to live in an area surrounded by fellow modelers. One of the perks of this is getting to participate in ops sessions on their railroads. I was able to do this at my friend John’s first “real” session.
I’ve been making some progress on the Windsor St Yard layout. Nothing incredible, but necessary nonetheless.