Here are some 360 views of railroad views for the sake of variety:

http://blog.360cities.net/railroad-adventures/

Finally, I get around to updating what's happening on the Ghost River. I've been busy adding lots of scenery, scratchbuilding some structures, generally goofing off and entering my inventory into Easy Model Railroader. The inventory was quite a challenge, but once I got onto the program things progessed easily over the period of a week or so. Loco pictures have been added and rolling stock is next.

My layout is nearly ready for some scenery so in preparation I've started experimenting with different painting and weathering techniques on my structures to try and achieve realistic results.  My current side project is coming up with a repeatable technique to create the look of an old, weather beaten brick factory that are common to the New York City area that I'm modeling.  The image below gives a decent idea of the look I'm after (which is ironically in Oslo; used with permission of the site host): 

February 17th, 2011 we will be moving into our new location in Bloomington, Mn.

The new headquarters will have a crew lounge for watching DVD's & videos, workshop area for individuals to work on their projects, car and locomotive maintainence bench, and 25x17 layout room with air conditioning and heat :))  lighting in the ceiling and the walls have already been painted. The floor has been painted a medium gray too.  

First things First;

Spent a little money over the last couple of days on some building supplies - styrene, card, glue. I'm going to start building my mine buildings. My little pike is going to be centred around it, so it is my logical first step.

I'm using the plans the Jack Work published in a three part series in October, November and December 1959.

My layout is very likely going to change a little according to these mine buildings, but I expected that.

As some of you are aware I enlisted the help of Byron Henderson of Layout Vision to critique my track plan before I begin building. Having no former experience building a model railroad I wanted a well trained eye to look over what I had designed in hopes that serious design blunders would be found before track hits roadbed.

It has been a long time since I have made a blog entry. I have been busy with work, family, and other hobbies. After a long hiatus I started home brewing again. I have also discovered that editing home videos takes an absurd amount of time. Oh yeah, I have two toddlers. 'Nuff said!

 Hi All,

As well as almost finishing the backdrop over the last few days I have also started the wiring for the J&L,  just before Christmas I purchased my NCE 5 amp Power Pro system.  So over the last couple of days I have started to install the wiring at the intermodal end of the layout.

The NCE 5 amp Power Pro system...