Some days progress is different.  Spent the last two days cleaning up the train room (and watching football).  Not pristine by any count, bu I do feel more energy to work again, so it was worth it.  (I won't post before pictures.  They are embarrassing.  Nothing that you all haven't seen in your own places, but embarrassing to me none the less.)

I am still missing an Xacto.  I'm sure I'll find it in an undesirable way...

Happy New Year everyone!

On checking I was pleasantly surprised to see that the individual C&A blog segments total just short of half a million reads and well over 3000 comments

With Christmas fast approaching and the C&A also close on 10 years from conception I thought I would make a quick (4 minute) slide show of images very much in a random order:
 

Amazing how little one can get done when busy working.  Vacation starts today, maybe I'll start making progress again?  

Though I shouldn't complain too much.  Started buying turnouts, found an inexpensive source for Pecos, just $15!  And I rebuilt my traffic generator DB to better work with the new layout.  So that's progress.

Next week:  figure out the benchwork design.  make a 3d design for a semaphore.  Force myself to start building one of those two Peco turntables I need.

It's been almost five years since I've posted on this site, nearly all of which was spent separated from my layout,  and most of which was entirely without model railroading. I'm not at all bothered by spending my mid-20's gallivanting around instead of playing with trains. But between the current state of both the world (melting down under a global pandemic) and my life (settled in a long-term rental house with my girlfriend, and rapidly becoming a crotchety old grandpa at heart), I figure I'll be hunkered down for most of the winter and will have probably the money, time, energy, and desire to really pick up the hobby again.