I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout. 

Firmware v1.1 for the ProtoThrottle has been officially released:

https://github.com/IowaScaledEngineering/mrbw-cst/releases/tag/1.1

Full release notes can be found at the link above, but here are the highlights:

I was watching the Apple Special Event today and the announcement of the camera features of the iPhone 10s. You can now take a picture and, even if the background is blurry, you can adjust the f-stop on the photo you have taken and the pictures software will let you adjust the depth of field. You do not have to take multiple pictures and knit them together in Helicon focus or similar software. One picture will do, and the adjustment is done in the super fast processing in Apple's new A-12 64 bit processor.