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Latest News and Updates
February 6th, 2010 The sanding and fueling facility is complete installed on the departure tracks from the roundhouse. January 30th, 2010 The car shop is complete installed behind the roundhouse. January 23rd, 2010 The roundhouse is complete and the machine shop is close (to completion as well as sitting close to the roundhouse). January 9th, 2010 The roundhouse is nearing completion. Check out the construction page here. December 20, 2009 The Nicholson Tunnel area is nearing completion. Look at the Westbound from Scranton page. November 29, 2009 Added the buildings page under progress. This shows progress on the signal tower that was built a week ago and the building next to the D&H interchange. November 26, 2009 Happy Thanksgiving! I received a number of trees this week. I have set up a trees page under progress in the scenery section. November 20, 2009 Finally built out westbound from Scranton. This is essentially a shelf layout that stretches about 15 feet before disappearing into a wall and into a storage room in which a turnaround loop and staging yard can be found. July 22, 2009 The recently restored (and upgraded to modern safety standards) Erie Mikado 3200 arrived in town for TrainFest 2009. This link shows her pulling a cut of reefers into town (on the westbound main because of MOW work on the eastbound). May 3, 2009 Added the Rolling Stock Information & Images page. Unfortunately (well for modeling, anyway), I have been way too busy with work to get anything done. February 22, 2009 Added the Engine Service Facility page and started its construction. February 19, 2009 Update the Ballasting page with my ballasting technique and some photos of finished ballast. February 17, 2009 Add the Photo Gallery page for photos of finished areas of the layout. At this time, that's Bridge 60 (although it needs a few small touches). February 15, 2009 Bridge 60 is now pretty much completed. The bridges are glued in place and all tracks in the area are now painted and ballasted. The guard rails have rusted in place too. Here is the bridge progress page. February 9, 2009 Bridge 60 is nearing completion. The roads, river, stone walls and ballasting under the bridge are all complete. Next up is painting and ballasting of the main line and wye tracks. Here is the bridge progress page. January 30, 2009 Added backdrop & scenery page. January 1, 2009 Initial release of website. |
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