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I thought I'd try something a bit different for a change and ran some modern stock on the layout. Being the lazy so-and-so that I am, I didn't bother changing the vehicles or advertising hoardings, instead choosing to use angles that minimised the incongruity. As usual, I took some photos...

I have been busy over the weekend installing three new Soundtraxx decoders into a couple of P1K RS2s and an Atlas RS3 (by far the harder one to do. Here's a link to the video footage on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uslTeRxNzoE I also have a request - a couple of the RS units...

I felt it was high time I started to build up some cars for an empty stock car train - well, after all, I am modelling Chicago. After rummaging through my stuff I managed to gather together a paultry 4 stock cars, a result of not having any stock pens on the layout. However, I like the...

I finally managed to locate a second CNW F3 at a local show yesterday enabling me to make a matching A-A set. I soundchipped one of them and chipped the other with an NCE chip, after removing the Lenz chip that was already installed (didn't have speed tables and I was unable to match the...

I've just been messing with some old video clips - making them older still, using Windows Moviemaker video effects. You can get carried away if you're not careful - it's addictive. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/album508/aaz Older http://www.railimages.com/gallery/album508/aba You Tube...

I made a start on soundchipping one of the 2 brass locos I picked up last weekend. This is the one I chose to begin with. Not only do I want to bang a Tsunami into it, I want to convert it from an oil tender to a coal version and lettering it for the Belt Railway of Chicago - I don't do things...

I finally plucked up the courage to do some weathering on my Kadee cars (and others) this week. These are early attempts and far from Mellow-Mike standards, but I'm learning. Here's one for Trainworm Jon

I have been working towards building some new trees for the layout and re-vamping some old ones, mangled by either kids or cats. Here's what I got done last night. Still to get the 'sea foam' or 'Forest in a Box' added to the wire branches Jon

I have been working on a small layout with a couple of friends these past few weeks. The competition rules said it not only had to work, but everything also had to fit in a shoebox. Here's what we came up with Jon

I just picked up some Genesis steamers from a friend - lovely models but some of them don't run, although I was well aware of this when I bought them. This is particularly strange as the locos look like they have hardly been run, and haven't even had the parts bags opened. The problem...

I just finished three tank cars for my British layout. Not quite what you'd expect for a tank car. Arf, arf.:D Jon

I got stuck into changing out several more turnouts over the past few days. Here's the progress so far. Next for some paint... Jon

I got some tender wheel pickups made last night to improve the electrical contact on my otherwise brilliant model. I soundchipped mine a while back and was disappointed that the sound would cut out when the loco passed over most turnouts or dirty track, even though the point frogs had DPDT...

Things are finally starting to happen on the switching layout. I spent ages designing the foldaway legs, bearing in mind the layout will be fully portable and able to be transported in the back of the car. The whole leg structure can be erected in under a minute, with each set of legs...

This week, oi 'ave been mostly kitbashing yet another loco. This time it's an EMD rebuilt P2K GP30. There wasn't much that needed doing apart from removing a few details and adding a few others to turn the model into a GP39E (the E is for EMD). the pictures sort of speak for themselves. First...

This week I took one of these... took the paint off....:cry: Hacked about with a few details...:eek: And hey presto, ended up with one of these :p :p :p :D Jon

Well here it is, the GP15-1 kit from Smokey Valley. Lots of tasty bits and pieces, and I've already lost a couple - D'oh. Hence the plasticard pilot and anticlimber. What usually happens is that as soon as I make/buy a replacement, the original turns up. Here are the pieces. You also need a...

Here's the latest loco I am doing up. It's the Concor MP15 with more than a few bits of an Athearn SW1500 chucked in for good measure. This is the one I'm doing. Belt Railway MP15 First the frame. The sides of the frame have been cut back with plasticard strip to hide the gap between the...

I finally got my TR4A and B set into some semblance of being finished. Here's what I was trying to achieve http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/brc/brc502k.jpg http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/brc/brc502.jpg Here's what I got.... Jon

I'm currently doing a couple of Conrail switchers - SW12 and SW15, as well as a GP15-1, but the Conrail logos on the HO MS decal sheets I have, are all too large for switchers. Can anyone tell me which decal sheet to get for the correct sized logos. I looked at the N gauge sheet but they...