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The Cornhill & Atherton Railroad begins
The Cornhill and Atherton is born……..
Christmas seems to be the time that I make most progress, so the chainsaw layout has been chain sawed and I finally make a start on the main event. Although I now have a dedicated railroad room it’s only 11 x 8 (space is at a premium in the UK). So after months of investigation and thought I settled on a 2 deck arrangement linked with a helix.
One of my favorite things
One of my favorite things about model railroading is "layers" or "revolutions". What do I mean by this - just that when working on the layout I like going back ad improving / changing / expanding on something I did previously. Let me give you an example on my previous Richlawn Railroad: When I built Hoovertown the area across the tracks was first done with ground foam grass and $1.00 trees from China. The area looked O.K. I then purchased Joe Fugate's excellent DVDs and saw static grass...and suddenly my area wasn't O.K. Anymore.
To the 1:1 scale railroaders out there..
I'm just curious...
We seem to have quite a few railroaders here on MRH, and that got me thinking. I've been with NS for 15 years now, and I've noticed two related items:
Now I've Done It...
I recently emailed the people who run a local model railroad show every March and asked them if they'd be interested in me exhibiting an O scale switching layout at their show. Today, they emailed back and said, "yes." Now I'm committed!
This will be my first time exhibiting a layout; I'm excited and nervous at the same time.
Progress on the WP&GNMRR
Its been about a month since my last post so I thought it was time for an update, the coal mine and west end of the yard is essentially finished it just needs some more details added.
Free Narrow Gauge Calendar for 2013
Same procedure as last year! I like to share my free downloadable calender
available at my modellcom-blog. Sorry, but the site is only in german, but you
may use the translation function to get a little idea about what is going on
there (railroads, real and model and cardmodeling).
Litter, uh, see?
Those speel chuckers can't help - and I'll admit to fumble fingering the keys with great regularity, especially dyslexic spelling like hte or teh for "the", and despite that rarely using spell check, but there is also the misuse of various homophones (for vs four vs fore, or their vs they're, etc.) and some almost look alikes. In just a few minutes reading this morning I've seen one of the usual suspects
loosing for losing
and a really new one:
fascias for facetious
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