The Weathering Depot

Here is this week’s photo from the original Hitop branch layout, working the coal in West Virginia:

In this post we’ll finish up switching Monsanto with the rest of our crew, this time myself, Fred, and Jimmy.  It’s now dark as we come back from lunch and get 8806 going. What we need to finish is to move the tank cars from the holding track to the…

A look at the layout this morning, including the next local with inbound cars:

Today we’re switching out Monsanto Chemical. As 8806 is basically assigned to the industrial area out along the Ohio here, there’s always a local out of Riverside yard that brings inbound cars and then of course takes the outbound cars back to the yard. So today we start with the…

Amazing photos recently of the Penn Central along the Ohio River in Cincinnati during these three periods. Check it out!

Here is this next week’s layout photo from the original layout:

A new sight we haven’t seen before, and that’s this conveyor that some company has trucked into the team track to start unloading  some type of commodity:

Here we go with the new series and our new characters. So let’s meet them! Obviously Steve is myself.  Dan, Charlie,  Chris,  and John along with Bob,  Jimmy,  and Fred are all people I worked with or were closely associated with the Indiana and Ohio Railroad in their early years.…

Coming soon to the layout will be quite a few details from miniprints including brooms, telephone booth, Ice machine, and other details. You can find miniprints here: https://miniprints.com

Here is this week’s photo from the original NYC/PC Hitop branch layout: