Deciding On A Layout

Knowing that I wanted to use KATO Unitrack for my model railroad track I went and visted the website at katousa.com to see what kind of layouts they have. I wanted to use as much space as possible on top of my bar, yet if need be, be able to move the layout and re-use the bar. I brought my youngest son (now 12) down to take a look and get his opinion. I was not into just doing a switching layout, I wanted to enjoy watching the train go around, but also play with some switches occasionally. I came across a layout called “Manning Oaks” and thought it would be perfect. The layout was designed to fit on a 36”x72” board and that would fit perfectly on my bar. It provided 2 full loops where I can watch the trains go around and some turnouts to be me more involved with the layout.

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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 Galle...

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.

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