John


Only one more switch and the mainline is complete.  I have three sidings to lay, and the lead to the turntable. I also need to dig out a hole for the turntable pit. I also was digging through my stash and came across an old Republic Locomotive Works Nn3 tank […]

Continuing around the bend…



I finally got back to working on the roundy round. So far, I have laid about 8 feet of track including a switch and truss bridge. I have the more difficult trackwork ahead, but I decided to share a little. I also finished up my oil bunker conversion of my […]

Getting back to the roundy round




The more I looked at the SP depot that I was working on, the more I realized that my skills were not up to the level of what I wanted. I looked in my stash, and found an unpainted, half built Atlas Suburban Station. Out came the correct Southern Pacific […]

A depot….


I currently have just one DCC locomotive, my GP35R.  My 9 year old daughter has a Micro-Trains SW1500 that is DC and the rest of my locos are DC as well.  I added a DPDT switch that is wired to both systems so I can simply throw a switch. It […]

DCC or DC?