I wrote this post to break down exactly how I built the last section of benchwork for phase 1 of my model railroad. Many of the visitors to this blog are often searching for “how to” do various things so I purposely broke this down into extreme detail in hopes of helping answer whatever […]

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During the Holiday slowdown I thought it would be interesting to show you some of the tools that I use to build bench work. Since I also spend quite a bit of time during the warmer months wood working, I tend to have more and better tools then the average home owner. Things […]

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This weekend I was able to make some progress on the backdrops. I use 1/8″ hardboard. I have found that the product carried at my local Lowes is no where near as flexible as the product carried at Home Depot. The Lowe’s product is tempered on both sides and the HD product […]

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Due to the wonderfully snowy weather, I was able to spend some quality time in the basement with my trains. I have made some real progress on the benchwork. For the uninitiated that is the structure upon which my train layout will be built. The picture is down the long axis of the approximately 5 […]

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