Well the shift back to the 1950’s is starting to pick up steam. As loyal readers know,  I finished the engine house. Today, I dug out an old Dimi Trains water tower that I built back in the 1990’s when I never thought about modeling diesel locos of the 80’s.  […]

Let’s do the time warp

I currently have a fully functional N Scale switching layout that needs scenery and buildings. It is working great but I don’t seem to be switching trains as much as I thought that I would be. It seems like each time I operate the layout, I complete the exact same […]

At a crossroad

Or should I say brass? I have been working on a Traincat Southern Pacific C-30-6 caboose kit for the last six months or so.  I have been assembling sections like the floor. Today I took a giant step forward by painting the orange ends and steps of the caboose.  I […]

Different iron in the fire

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