This is my attempt to Scratch build a Colorado & Southern butterfly snowplow.

As some of you may know my interest is mainly narrow gauge On30 and I am in the first stages of construction. Besides having a nice collection of On30 equipment over the years I have acquired some HO scale locos,rolling stock and structures. As it so happens On30 and HO track is one and the same with the possible exception of tie spacing and tie size. So now I'm thinking, What if I "Nested" HO scale structures inside my O scale structures.

These are some photos taken at Lansing Legacies layout tours. Some of these layouts may be on the NMRA National convention 2012 layout tours. These ones shown are maybe 50 miles or more from Grand Rapidsbut well worth a visit.

I found this while researching some abandoned steam locomotives in Russia. Hopefully the coordinates work. I copied then from Google Earth.

55°31'18.64" N 37°32'55.05" E

Rob Teed

After I installed my DCC decoder in the Bachmann 2-6-0 I figured I might as well make a bear trap smoke stack. After all that is the most distinctive addition that you can add to this locomotive. I found a photograph of #22 on the internet and used that as a guide. I printed out the photo and compared it to my  until it matched close to the same size. This would be my guide for making a template. You can see the template in the opening shot of video.

Ok, I have been the "victim" to the "Mark as spam" even though my Blog was not "Spam" . It would seem there are those among us that wish to impose their views about what constitutes as Spam. I will suggest that people posting messages about other Magazines or Books should be considered as "Review's" other then spam. If you have a bias against a magazine (i.e. Model Railroader ) thats fine by me,but dont mark a post as spam because one of the MRH subscribers post information  about "News" that that publication is doing.

At Trainfestival 2009 I had purchased  a  RailDriver® Desktop Train Cab Controller in hopes of one day integrating it with my DCC controller and JMRI software. I have reached the point where it is in testing. I have posted a video on my Youtube channel. Click the link if you wish. Please leave a comment here or on the Youtube Video page with your thoughts. Thanks,

Rob Teed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMI-V_nudDY

 This contest will be ending March 31st. I have several designs and have narrowed it down to Two. So if you

are working on a design please get it submitted by the end of the month. $100.00 prize to the winner.

Posting this in case anyone would like to enter. I have tried to design my layout but I'm not too good at it. So I have a contest going on the XTrkCad Yahoo users group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/

Here is a Panoramic view of the train room.This will be an On30 layout. About 16' x 17' and 9' walls.I have two recessed areas. Also have two doorways. The tall one is the entrance. The other doorway is space under the stairs. I think this will be the computer/Dispatcher area. The short wall to the left of the entrance door will have a few tunnels through it leading to a helix in an adjoining room. I plan to have three levels on this layout.I have all of the benchwork stored in another room. Benchwork came from a guy that was getting out of the hobby.

Years ago I read an article in Model Railroader about a man who took a walking trip around his layout. On this trip he noted those things that looked realistic and un realistic. The thing that stood out in my mind the most was Ungrounded buildings. Ungrounded being that they seemed to hover in mid air at the base, floating several inches above. Now in the real world buildings are setting on foundations or right on the ground. Seldom hanging in mid air unless some force of mother nature had occurred.