Time for me to show off!


DL, is it shut down for good? Or just during the summer?
We had a hard shutdown of our layout due to expansion construction over the summer. Usually we are just closed to visitors but still open to members during the summertime.

Also I haven't posted for a while. I've been collecting more passenger and express cars to start running a Fast Mail instead of a Hiawatha. Short video showing that here:


This will replace my Hiawatha during our special nighttime events, as the fancy train didn't run at night and the Fast Mail did.

Otherwise have some photos.
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I've really come to dislike my pair of Walther's Proto E7A's that used to pull my Hiawatha, and then I went and learned that Milwaukee didn't run them on the Hiawatha trains int he 1950's anyway. No idea what Walther's was thinking there, so I got two F7's to make a triplet passenger set during Black Friday sales. For now one has sound, but eventually all three will get ESU.
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I finally added the red Mars lamp to my Skytop lounge.
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Then I decided that wasn't enough and added classy marker lamps to the Beavertail of my 1935 Hiawatha

Lastly, I got tired of my BLI #261 being dead, again, so I took it apart on a whim and ripped out the disgusting Paragon stuff. Once you get rid of that, the model runs like butter. I'll be doing a video mini series about it in the coming month.
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