It’s been quite a while since the last update. Work in August was focused on ground cover and landscaping, particularly around the edge of the layout along the West Side station. I also did some additional work with the ground cover on the East Side Yard as well, mainly cleaning up and sealing what was…
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Layout Update – July 24, 2022
It’s been about a month since the last update and there’s been quite of bit of work that’s happened since then. First up was my final Metcalfe card stock kit, the Corner Shop and Pub kit is actually two buildings, as you can see it was actually two buildings in one kit, and i assembled…
Atlas Trinity Reefers
New on the layout are the modern Atlas Tropicana Trinity Reefers. I first saw these in an ad in Model Railroader last year and went on the hunt for them only to discover that they were nearly impossible to find. They had been out of stock for so long that they just weren’t listed in…
West Side Changes
My original intention for the layout as I was plotting it out was to place my Kato Overhead Viaduct station on the west straight along the wall. The viaduct was a centerpiece of the first layout I build all the way back 20 years or so ago… The station was the centerpiece of the old…
New on the Layout – Buses
Things are starting to pickup again on the layout, with some re-construction going on (more in a later post) and some new additions. If you spent time in US and some Canadian cities in the 70s and into the 80s then GM’s buses were a sight you were very familiar with. I knew the buses…
New DCC Programming Track Installed
It’s been a while since I last posted any updates, but there’s been work happening although at a bit slower pace than previously. The general setup that I had planned was that I’d have the layout wired for DCC with a DCC programming track back in the workshop. I could take engines back there and…
Photos From Around The Layout – April 17
It’s been a while since the 4859 made a run on the layout. While there are several GG-1s in museums around the US, unfortunately none of them will run again. But, on a layout that is based on a railroad museum, anything is possible including a GG-1 pulling a special “heritage train.” Like the HHP-8,…
Finished Projects – April 17, 2022
It hasn’t all be new trains at the Centreville RR Museum, there’s been other work going on too. There’s a new gas station in town! This is another Metcalfe card stock kit – while the station is a bit British other than the MOT signage I think it works well. There’s still a bit of…
New on the Layout – Swiss Federal Railways RE 4/4 and Simplon Express Cars
Today I headed over to Reynauld’s Euro Imports in Elburn IL. This was the third time I tried to visit the store, and I’ll admit I’ve been getting a little frustrated with them. The last two times I went to the store during their posted business hours and they were closed. I’ve been watching their…
Bachmann Amtrak HHP-8
Until recently there wasn’t a whole lot of options for N scale engines if you were interested in running electric locomotives that could be seen around the North East Corridor. Arguably not much has changed in that respect, although Kato’s ACS-64 Sprinter and Atlas’ ALP-45 are available today. Bachmann made an E-60 from around 1984…