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Been plugging away slowly at the scenery on my NTrak modules. The left module being the hardest as I have a river running across it. The river was the pacing item. I had to have that completed before adding the many bridges and track work. Think I have the river part well underway, just...

I am realy impressed with the service I received from Bachmann Service. My N scale Spectrum 2-6-6-2 Challenger released all it's factory installed smoke (burned out) when something went wrong with the Clubs electrical system at a recent show. I took it apart and found the motor was seized...

Great day, so I set my two modules up in the yard. Used my airbrush and painting in natural light was great.

Took me a while to come up with a solution to double head my N scale Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0s. That dinky little non functioning coupler on the engine is only there for looks and the only way possible to couple two engines was with a draw bar connection I configured. Worked great, made a...

I did enjoy detailing the inside of this logging camp mess hall for my NTRak module. I put in two large skylight windows hoping most of the detail would be visible and I also have a warm white LED inside that I can wire up.

I don't know why I went to all the trouble of building eight bunk houses when the LPBs are so careless. This I am adding to my base logging camp on my NTrak module. It will be a conversation piece at least.

I am working on several NTrak modules and I would like to have an animated waterfall. I know you have all seen the lighted pictures of Niagra Falls in shopping malls, the one where it looks like the water is flowing in the picture. Is something like that possible on a module? Tried several...

Love rainy days, get to work on my modules. Made some castings using the molds I made from the rock I borrowed. Started added the rock outcroppings to the left module, this one will be heavily forested and the right one will be an example of early day clear cut. (Still casting my roots...

Working on my NTrak modules and I am looking for a large picture of a clear-cut hillside. I want to photocopy it and use it as a backdrop in my logging theme. Anyone know of a source?

Starting to plan the track work for my two new NTrak modules. Going for a logging scene and will be switchbacking up from the blue line to the mountain division. Using a 5% grade for the 3" of rise. Nothing in the picture is anchored. I have everything pinned in place continually rearranging...

Finally got around to starting my new modules. Two four footers that will include a mountain division.

Here is a picture my Dad took back in the fifties of the Highway 58 overpass just a little west of Woodford, CA.

Just wondering if anyone else is going to the Northeast Prototype Meet in Collinsville, CT tomorrow and Saturday. Great schedule of clinics this year and great displays of prototype modeling.

Here are some pictures of the walk-thru-module I constructed and posted some time back. My club, the Valley NTrak of CT, has now used it sucessfully for our last four shows.

This coming Sunday, April 2nd, Jonathan Law High School is having their 8th Annual Train show. Our Valley NTrak club will be participating this year with a 26 by 28 foot modular layout. Anyone coming through Connecticut on I-95 Sunday should drop in. High School is less than a mile from exit...

Valley NTrak participated in the Cheshire, CT. train show with a 22 by 30 ft layout. Very active day, we met many interested and interesting people. Our 16 foot setup yard was very busy all day. We had the younger viewers counting well past fifty as freight cars passed them.

I finished up the walk thru gate module in time for our first show. Finishing touches were some scenery to the two tower tops. The buildings are held in place with magnets and are easily removed when breaking it down for transporting. Everything gets stored neatly inside the towers. I did...

I am in contact with a elderly gentleman who is interested in selling off his "N" scale collection of buildings and structures. There is close to three hundred, if not more, buildings and structures. He has lost interest, after 20 years of collecting, because of his eyesight. I was tryng to...

Yesterday our club was hired to set up a display and run trains for a large corporation's family Christmas Party. It was a fantastic show and the attendance of children as well as parents was overwhelming. Wished we knew beforehand that we could have had as much room as we wanted, as it was...

Still plugging away on my "NTrak" walk through. Completed painting the towers and gate and have re-assembled the gate to install the track and start the electrical.