Due to the nature of my job I was unexpectedly out of work from last Christmas until te beginning of May which presented a wonderful opportunity to fill the cold winter days by working on my layout uninterrupted. In that time I feel like I achieved quite a lot on the layout construction itself as well as building structures and whatnot. Like most railroad modelers, I tend to get "on a track" of maybe wiring for a while then when I get bored I shift gears and build a structure or two or maybe work on scenery.

I left off with the stage of my railroad development having built the benchwork, added foam risers and platforms, fascia, newspaper and tape to prepare for the addition of Woodland Scenics plaster cloth for the mountains.

Hey everyone I was thinking about doing an outdoor O scale layout and run it off battery power only.  So I bought a new MTH Diesel loco (SD60 to be exact) with the Proto 3.0 sound.  It is a gorgeous loco but what I thought was going to be a pretty easy conversion has me questioning a few things.  Has anyone done this conversion on a similar type loco with the Proto 3.0 sound on it?  I was thinking of using the CVP products but they said they haven't done this on the new locos yet and I would be the guinea pig LOL.  

I have been building an Alpine scene railroad in DCC and DC over the last few years in Z scale and have been inspired by other great blogs to start my own and record my progress/trials/tribulatons. I have learned so much from other member's comments in other blogs and I am hoping my story will help others and I may be lcky enough to have some of my questions answered my my hurtles overcome.