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Easter break was a fun time, however, not a lot gone done on the layout.  OK, nothing got done except a little more clean up and organizing (and still more to do).  Good week with the kids off school, though.  My son is now (finally) riding a bike, so we did some biking and playing games and had a lot of fun.  

My user name is KL_P which stands for the KERHONKSON LACKAWACK & PEEKAMOOSE RAILROAD.  There are three towns/villages in the southern Hudson Valley of New York with these names.  The KL&P represents the Holding Company for: Delaware & Hudson Canal Co; Delaware & Hudson Railroad; and the Boston & Maine Railroad.

I have an N scale layout prototyped after the D&H.  I have been in the hobby over 62 years, with over 40 years in N scale/

I will enter more information later.

George

Fresh new decals have arrived at the Withlacoochee River Rwy, and painting another F unit, (or another few F units for that matter) has commenced, I should have my newest done by the end of the week.....

A short highlight video of the London Festival of Railway Modelling 2009 held in Alexander Palace London Uk there is camera shake since I could not take nor use my tripod.

Link if the video above dont work:  http://blip.tv/file/1989002

Has been uploaded to youtube, and is live, and if your a member here, you can click this link to visit the page with the videso in the discussion forums.

*** MODERATOR EDIT *** Converted reference into a link.

Another great episode of "Weathering 101", come with me on this journey as I weather a 40 foot boxcar, which is a Rio Grande steel boxcar, thats right the one in this picture.

And this picture

This multi part series should be on youtube sometime this week.

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January 2009

Well its the morning of April 11 and I am waiting for the "Hobbyist" to show up.

Been working on my railroad....after 2 and half years of basement refinishing.  I have been building the benchwork right now and currently working on the first deck. It is sort of a double deck railroad in that the lower deck is devoted to staging while the upper deck, at a nice level for viewing, is devoted the actual railroad.

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