Man, this is getting frustrating.  Atlas has new code 80 switches on the slow boat from China, but none of them are Customlines, they got code 55 #5’s but no flex track.  I have a lot of code 80 flex,  a pair of left #4 Customlines,  another pair of left […]

Trying to figure out the Central California plan



Here is the almost finished Micro Trains engine house from Joe. After I took these photos,  I noticed that the roof was not on right,  so I removed it.  

The engine house



So I have been wanting to build a roundy-round set in the early 1950’s so I can run my Bachmann 2-8-0. My fiend Joe D’Amato really planted the seed when he gave me a Micro-Trains engine house. This engine house has many components that look and feel like John Allan’s […]

the second layout


And I wanted something that is SP but not what everyone else has   I still have to putty it, add trim to the windows then paint. The roof will follow,  then the deck. The wife got a little bit mad at me, so I had to point out that […]

I decided that I need a depot…


Last week my 8 year old daughter bought her first N scale freight car with her own money.  This week,  my friend Joe D’Amato sent her TEN Micro Trains cars as a present.  She has been looking at these cars wanting to switch them, but with the heat being over […]

I’m a bad dad