Smoken’ Joe D’Amato has figured out how to make a wood laser cut kit that is really a one  night project. I have built many kits over the last 30 years, and I can not remember an easier kit to assemble. This was a very easy kit, and it looks […]

Just finished building another Micro-trains.com kit

Today I wired up about half of my HCD layout, and started testing my trackwork only to discover that one rail was sitting a little high, causing the pilot truck to derail. I cleaned up the bump, and derailment continued. I then realized that the pilot truck was hitting the […]

Track work….

Tonight I laid a garden track and the lead to the turntable. I also mocked up the last three sidings. There is a pocket track for the team track on the front of the layout. As of right now, it is long enough to hold three random Micro Trains forty […]

Work continues…

Since the Southern Pacific took over the Pacific Coast Railway, they started to improve the facilities of Santa Ynez. Here we see the newest addition to the yard, an 80 foot turntable taking PCRY 136 for a spin. Soon, the fuel storage will be upgraded.

The Santa Ynez engine facilities are getting improvements