A couple of projects are currently in the works on the Eagle River Division layout. First project involves some track and industry changes at Williamsville; second project involves adding a turning loop at South Park (Staging) Yard. Williamsville Track and Industry Changes At Williamsville, the power plant building was removed.…
Assembly of an American Model Builders HO 726 Implement Barn with Corral Kit was recently completed, and has been installed on the layout. This is a laser-cut wooden kit. It was easy to assemble and we hope you agree that it produced a good-looking small barn that would look at…
Most of the iron stored in the body is bound to a protein known as ferritin, so in 1857 when the physician that founded the little village of New Mavlovia heard that an Iron Works was going to be built in the area, he cleverly renamed the town Ferritin City.…
The new space will be 11.5 ft long and 28 inches deep. It will be supported by wall brackets made out of 1 x 4 and plywood. The addition will connect at a right angle to an existing part of the layout that is 18 inches deep.
Track feeders and tortoise switch machines have been installed but the tortoise machines still need to be connected to power and toggle switches. The new arrangements have not been tested with an operating session yet, but I am confident they provide additional variety to the jobs at Westburg and at Oak Hill.
Scenery on the Eagle River Division is a little further along this week. Around the Corner from Midwestern Elevator Company is another grain elevator, the Westburg Farmer’s Coop. This is assembled from another Walther’s kit. A little to the west of the MFA elevator is a freight depot. Even though it…
The third operating session on the Eagle River Division is in the history books. Well, maybe not in the actual books, but it is history. There were surprisingly few hiccups – a turnout with a bad point that had to be replaced, a couple of dragging couplers, and a few…
“Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors” according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia of course, is the ultimate source for all that is true in the universe, so we must believe this to be correct. But, we are not here…
“Consider yourselves lucky..” Yesterday, at around 2 p.m. central standard daylight savings time, a giant wielding the largest pair of Xuron nail snippers these parts have ever seen, descended on Millerton, Missouri and destroyed most of that city. Train-workers operating in the vicinity only hours before were narrowly spared. “It…
Last time I built a layout, I couldn’t wait to add scenery to it – “scenic it” as a model railroader would say. The problem with doing that, is that if you want to make changes to your track plan – even modest ones – it becomes a real pain…
