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It's Sunday, July 5, 2026 and the same westbound Amtrak Floridian is west of Cumberland approaching "Falls Cut" tunnel on former B&O...
Aug 22, 2026
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Sorry to hear about your website, best of luck on finding a new home.
Your building skills are evident, thank you for showing then...
Aug 20, 2026
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McCaughey's store (1877) is coming along. The front windows and doors are cut in and nearly ready to be glued in place. I bought some...
Aug 20, 2026
And got her finished, finally. Direct wired the decoder and remembered to insulate this time.
Had enough room for a nano stay alive...
Aug 20, 2026
Finally decided to continue with the J36 sound install. Had to extend the tender pick up wires to give me more wiggle room. These are...
Aug 20, 2026
Finished the other one. Changed the LED resistor to 20K so they look much better for UK steamers.
Aug 20, 2026
Printed up the speaker enclosure and mounted the speaker. Fits like a glove and is very loud being inside that space. Volume had to be...
Aug 20, 2026
My Hornby HM7000TXS decoders came in today, so decided to install my my old J52 0-6-0. I have two of these and both were converted to...
Aug 20, 2026
Yup no matter how much you plan there’ll always be revisions as you go.
Looking forward to watching the build! 😀
Aug 19, 2026
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Chet, your work is excellent. I truly enjoy it and get many ideas for my own layout from you. Thanks
Aug 19, 2026
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Back again. The guardrails arrived and ended up being quite a job for me. I didn't have a proper space to work, the tools that would...
Aug 19, 2026
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I can understand completely Chet. Our previous home had the room for a "rail empire", but I didn't have the interest. We downsized...
Aug 19, 2026
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Very nicely done. Proves you don't need a warehouse to have a nice railroad scene.
Aug 19, 2026
Hello All. I haven't said this yet, but thanks for your interest in my work. I enjoy sharing, and also writing, and it's nice to know...
Aug 18, 2026
Forum is responding rather slowly, but I will try to post this last weekends pics.
Remember a few weeks ago I said the coal barge...
Aug 18, 2026
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