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Chris, Good to hear from someone! I have been so busy that little has been done. First frost of the season is coming tonight so, that will spell a little more time to do what's important. :D I recieved the diesel house last month and that will be a long assembly project. The track is ready to...

Well, he is already very interested and once we make a test run he'll be hooked for sure. He has a great insight to the protos because I have had him along on some of my fact finding excursions. He would probably say That I dragged him along but don't listen to him, he's just a kid! :D I have...

Right with ya there Lynn. With the track solidly in place its play time for the kid! :D I am molding all of my rock and rock face with a styrofoam wire cutter so, things can change many different times in the course of an hour. My youngest son (15) also is showing more interest all the time now...

Nope, not one train. :confused: He is running metered tests at each connection I have been told. The guy is an electronic engineer so..... I guess that qualifies him. :rolleyes: Like I stated before, the 20 or so I am going to have is a nightmare that keeps me awake. :D Who has the...

300 seems to be the treshold of insanity. He has been building this monster for 5 years and still hasn't seen a train run! There is also a gentleman that is in his early 80's that just purchased 10 CASES of flex. He has an around the wall layout that he just finished the benchwork for and it...

I am going to ask him for the plans next week. He has (2) professionals on retainer to help. There is also a customer of the HS that is converting his entire 1200 sq ft basement into his dream plan. Over 300 switches in that one. These guys are nuts! :D The bad side of this madness is, one has...

Good Morning from W. WI. :wave: Have a good FRIDAY all!

Family business (industrial metal finishing) for 20 years until we watched it burn down one day. For 12 or so just putting food on the table. But now, :D Me and the oldest son are running with a full head of steam in our satellite communications business!!! :thumb: Riches to Rags and back...

Chris, The main line switches to the yard will have ballast around them but, the yard is going to be black and nasty! :D This is a great way to feature how the actual workings are of a realistic rail operation. The nice clean and beautiful ballast will be turned to a rust/oil stained mess and...

Yes I did see that Lynn but, it will not fit in my layout scheme this time around. I am however going to purchase in the future the accessories for the engine house. Refuling station, wash station, ect. And yes you had better believe there wil be a loco motovating down the old tracks when all...

OOPS! Forgot a tip on ballasting that I found works really well. Before spreading the ballast materials I used a glue stick (tube type) on the cork roadbed (outside only) and it holds the ballast in place real well. The I finished spreading the rest, soaked with 50/50 H2O & Alcohol, and the...

Well, it happened already, I tore up some of the ballast because it just didn't look right, dang!:oops: And then I recieved the new Corner Stone diesel house. :D It is a kit and looks like a long Winter weekend project. :rolleyes: I think I have all the wiring ready to be hooked up and the DCC...

Good morning from Western Wisconsin! :wave: Kudos to the U.K. Security Force this morning! :thumb: Have a safe a good day all! :) Russell

Seems the more the posts the slower some times. If you exceed your band width posting or so-forth, it will also drag. Another possible cause is how many pix are on the thread because Graphics take a lot of band width. Some of these threads have a whole bunch of great pix on them. The time of...

Good Morning from Western Wisconsin! :wave: 52 & Sunny :) Hope all is well with your Mom Chief. Have a good day!

Good morning from FOGGY Western WI. :wave: 58 & Damp :eek: Have a good day all!

One more then I gotta do something today! :rolleyes: There are various forms of transportation in our little corner of the world, here are two ways for speedy delivery other then trains. :D

One of the areas I am using as a model. CP line (Tomah/La Crosse) Very old mainline but has been updated and well maintained.

Thanks Chris, Thats what I thought but we are our own worst ctitic sometimes. :D What have you used for weathering the track & roadbed? I was looking at various chaulk's and a coat of dulcoat or equivalent. Then I viewed a video where they used the air-brush. So many choices, so little time...

I spent the last several days just walking different rails and have come up with this amount of ballast from the through line on this section of the layout. Question; does this look like to much for a newly balasted road bed?