I've been building "poor man's jig" turnouts all summer and now I'm going to replace all the commercial turnouts on the "Eugene end" of staging tomorrow.

My poor man's jig turnouts use Central Valley turnout (CVT) ties and some Fast Track filing jigs to make quick work out of building a turnout. I like the CVT ties because they're inexpensive ($8 each) and they have slots for the rails - so you just drop the rails in place and you get a properly gauged turnout.

This afternoon I received an email from a gentleman from this website. He is a member of this site so I won't use his name but he also models NY Harbor railroads. He provided some information including a website URL that describes the kind of railroading that could be found on Manhattan Island up until about 1970. At least three of the major railroads once had a nuber of railyards served by car floats located at various places on the water front of the West Side.

My son has been married for a little over a week and things are getting back to normal. He and his wife got an apartment near us so that means he comes to the house several times a week and goes shopping in the pantry and refridgerator. It's not really a problem unless he takes something I was planning to eat later or the next day. That isn't so bad as I can easily replace what has been "borrowed."

Hi,

I don't have pics, so I will keep this short..

I am a member of a round robin group called "The Seacoast N-Scalers" here in Southeast NH. It has proved to be a tremendously enjoyable group. Everyone is relatively local which has made travel easy. While we mostly visit the same large "operating" layout, we from time to time we visit one of the other member's layouts. In my case, we were visiting another member's mostly empty basement.