First operating session in quite a long time completed!

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2018/07/beta-op-session-completed.html

I have another detailed blog posting here - giving an overview of my steam locomotive weathering techniques, and my designs for card-sorting shelves in (on?  under?  near?) the benchwork.  Enjoy!

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2018/07/more-weathering-shelving-for-op-sessons.html

A couple photos here, lots more in the blog post.

Let's try posting a video - this is test train on newly-scenic'd area, coming off the Ophir low-line, through what will be Vance Jct, and starting a 4% climb on the branch to Telluride.

Not sure this will work - but let's try...

I have created a Google map of the route of the RGS - showing where the ROW was, overlaid on a modern map with current roads, etc:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1wV0uynA8j_AFx3KCzV-QJKYzEck&hl=en_US

Monster Model Works yesterday announced they're re-producing their Durango roundhouse walls in HO scale and S scale for a limited time.  Cost is $120 for HO scale and $170 for S scale.  If you haven't seen Jimmy's brickwork, it is amazing quality.

Durango models for the D&RG or RGS layouts are hard to find, so these are work checking out if that's your prototype.  Links and details:

Perhaps some of you have heard of the podcast - A Modeler's Life?  Lionel Strang started it a couple years, talking to model railroads about life, trains, and lots of (sort-of) related topics.

The current full episode this week features me!

http://modelerslife.libsyn.com/episode-85-steven-haworth

A new blog post - with a ton of pictures on my techniques for ground cover and static grass, especially in mountain areas, and some additional photo backdrops.  Enjoy!

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/07/june-progress-static-grass-scenery.html

Not much layout work in the last week or two - due to lots of work, plus happy stuff like graduations. But I have finally gotten a few books on grass and trees by Gordon Gravett - generally not available in the US but by far the best I've found.

Another new blog post - this time with a ton of photos from my completed mine buildings for my town of Mancos; these are based on pair of Campbell kits.  And also - photos and descriptions of how I learned to use glass for my windows.

I'll just include one photo here, but all the rest are my blog site:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/03/mancos-structures-and-real-glass.html

I've created a new FB page to make discussion and sharing of my modeling easier, and create a kind of permanent repository for lots of photos. I updated my own blog with some of the reasons for creating the page:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-facebook-page.html

The new FB page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/stevesrgs