The Weathering Depot

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 loading/unloading track, then move the… Continue reading

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

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 local on second trick bringing… Continue reading

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

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

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: Continue reading

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. In fact,  here’s one of… Continue reading

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 Continue reading

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