And a little paint.....

I got tired of staring at white.....And solid blue skies. The colours are not really an issue as they will be covered by hundreds of tree's

Train time

Time to work on the layout now....

Cookie time

Look what I found at superstore.

I can see the difference, can you?

Well not an update really, just a change of pace. I made a short video of the layouts construction, and some trains in action.

And you guessed it!

More foam! This time I am trying some expandable foam to fill in the shapes. Now to shave it to a shape I like and plaster away.

And a little more foam.....

Glued some more foam down for carving, laid some ballast in the portals the other night as well. Should be able to start carving out the portals tomorrow.

And a little more.

Little more progress

Slowly but surely.

Hot outside, cool in the basement.

End of the line for Testors Floquil and Polly Scale paint - Model Railroader Magazine

End of the line for Testors Floquil and Polly Scale paint - Model Railroader Magazine

1:1 Scale

Well, I decided to dust off the camera on Easter Sunday and head to the tracks. What an insane day, 20+ trains and some things I have never seen done before. These two trains are both moving, following each other after a eastbound cleared the bridge at Natress.

Then the VIA unit did it's impression of a Steam Engine while going through Portage La Prairie.

Once that train passed we caught a few more on CP and one on CN. Not a bad day at all.

Didn't expect to find one of these in Walmart..

Planting toothpicks & foam.

Started planting some filler trees, and glued some foam.

CN Derail at Portage Jct.

Was coming home this morning and CN has flipped some doublestacks on their side at Portage Jct on the North Main.

How to kill 10+ hours on the internet

Take an intercative, real time train ride through norway. The first one is 10 hours long through some amazing scenery. The second is interactive in that you can pick which season you travel in, and you can follow along on the map below. Or view all 4 seasons at the same time. This was posted to one of the forums I frequent. The sites are not in English, so you will have to navigate around.

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/nordlandsbanen-minutt-for-minutt

http://nrk.no/nordlandsbanen/