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My friend Tom, emailed me on Friday to let me know that there was a Train Show up in Estes Park this weekend. Estes Park is neat little mountain town right outside of Rocky Mountain National Park. With the weather expected to be nice, Erin and I made plans to head up on […]

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I was in San Francisco this weekend and I was absolutely thrilled to see all the street cars along the Embarcadero. They were painted in many different but bright colors. One has to wonder why as a country we fell so in love with our cars that we were blind to the benefits […]

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When thinking about the size and quantity of buildings I wanted to construct on my layout from strip wood, I realized that it would not be cost effective to buy it all. Kappler makes a great product but the cost materials can add up quickly. I decided to try cutting it myself using […]

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Saturday morning I applied plaster cloth until I ran out. I was able to complete the area in the vicinity of Camp One. I have more in the mail from Micro-Mark. By the time I return from a business trip to California next weekend, I should have plenty of supplies on hand.

If […]

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I have been on a bit of a binge gluing and stapling strips together into a web defining my vision of the Sierra Lumber Company terrain. I had some false starts and some do-overs in the course of the last week but I feel pretty good about the new terrain forms in the vicinity […]

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Basic Scenery landforms can be built very fast using cardboard strips and plaster impregnated cloth. The mountain below was formed in just over an hour and is approximately 2 x 4 feet.

For my last layout I used styrofoam for scenery. I found that approach to be expensive, time-consuming, and messy. The cost of […]

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After watching some TV, I went back downstairs for a final run before bed. In a short period of time I was greeted with a very hostile squeal. Think nails on the chalkboard times 1000. I applied lubrication to all the externally accessible gears and bearings to no avail. As much […]

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Now that I have so much new track, I have been having much joy running one little train around headed up by my little 10 ton Bachmann Shay. If one is fun then certainly two would be funner. I have had a Bachmann Climax, another small logging engine, on the shelf for about […]

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