Building A Shelf For The Command Station...Part 2

In Part 1 of “Building A Shelf For the Command Station” we left the shelf in a bare state and now it was time to get some paint on it and finish up all the wiring. Late afternoon yesterday I did my best to use wood filler and cover up my screw holes and once that was dry I sanded down the filler. While the wife was cooking dinner I decided to go and ahead and start painting the shelf, this way later in the evening I can go ahead and complete the wiring. Mission accomplished, by time I was ready for bed I was able to have the command station shelf all completed and wired for operation.

Coat of paint all dry for the shelf.

NCE PCP Panel mounted.

KATO Power Pack and Switch Controls mounted. I like using the manual feel of the switches and the Power Pack will also be used when running DC only trains.

Switch Controls all wired.

Wiring diagram mounted for the Switch Controls.

Completed Command Station shelf.

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Michigan City Swap Meet...Recap

Now that I am ready to start to add some buildings and terrain to my layout I decided to hit up a swap meet in Michigan City, IN today to see if I can get lucky. My goal was to mainly shop for N scale buildings first, then anything that I could find that was C&NW related. Majority of the vedors that were on hand were selling HO scale and Lionel. I knew that getting into N scale I would have a harder time finding items, but I really do like the look of N scale over HO, I am probably in the minority but I feel N scale actually has more detail than HO scale. I did an initial pass of all the vendor tables and did find two C&NW boxcars along with a N scale Freight Depot building all for $20, so I was pretty happy so far. I decided to go and double back now and search more throughly to see if I could find anything else. I cam across a C&NW gondola car, another N scale Soda Shoppe building, then buried under a lot of boxes, I found a KATO Chicago METRA Gallery Bi-Level Commute

Scenery: December 2017 WIP (City and Park)

It has been aboout three weeks since my last update and things are moving along on my little N Scale layout. The first week in December I had my son visiting from out of town so not much was accomplished, then doing scenery work takes a lot of time. Waiting for paint to dry, waiting for glue to dry and so on. So here is a litte update on how things are going with my City and Park. It is still all a work in progress, and it will probably still be awhile before I get to any actual buildings. I am working on the areas where the building will go first, then the actual buildings.

Coloma Rails - N Scale Model Railroading

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