Monday, April 02, 2012

Whitefield Ball Signal

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One of the signature scenes on the Maine Central's Mountain Subdivision is the ball signal protecting the crossing with the Boston ...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Cat-proofing the LVRC

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My Lamoille Valley track runs around the walls from St. Johnsbury to Johnson before passing through the wall into a small closet area, then...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

An update on Car Cards and Waybills

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Between other modeling projects I have slowly been finalizing my car cards and waybills. As mentioned before, I was intrigued by the more...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Of Operations, Car Cards and Waybills

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The February 2012 issue of Model Railroader had an interesting article on advancing the state of car cards and waybills used for operatio...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

Visitors From Virginia

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On Saturday, December 3, I had two visitor's to the layout by special invitation. Marty McGuirk e-mailed me asking if he and Bernie Kem...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

National Model RR Month

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As always, I open my layout to the general public during November as part of National Model Railroad Month, where the goal is to show off ou...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Timonium with Captiol Free-mo

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I traveled down to Timonium, MD for the train show, again bringing my modules to connect to the Capitol Free-mo group. Despite the snow (in ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

NJ Division Open House

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On September 11th, I opened my layout for members of the New Jersey Division MER-NMRA. This happens about every 2 years as the Meet location...
Monday, August 15, 2011

Focus on trackwork

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Been busy most of the summer with other activities, but in August I was able to get back to working on the layout. After some initial clean ...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Heat Wave

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Has it been hot enough for you? At least most of the country has been at or near 100 degrees this week. Yikes, nowhere to go but the basemen...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Free-mo Update

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A while back, I wrote about my Free-mo modules, but I have not given too many updates. Well, I have been working on them pretty steadily sin...
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Friday, March 04, 2011

Hydrocal Structure Kits

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Continuing with my structure building bug that has hit recently, I built 2 structure kits based on Hydrocal wall castings. The impetus for b...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Three Little Sheds

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As Bob Marley says in Three little Birds, "Every little thing...is gonna be alright"! Well, if you have this kit in your stash, I ...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Springfield Report

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[FYI...yes, I updated the look of the blog. I figured after 5 years it as getting kind of stale] Just back from the Big Hobby Show in Spri...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Happy New Year

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I have not been real diligent in posting updates and info to the blog. I'll see if I can remedy that this year and put more info out the...
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