2017 Lowell Smith Disney Christmas Car

Back at Trainfest in November I met Lowell Smith in the vendor area and loved the cars that he designs and sells. Back in 2010 he came out with the Disney Christmas Train line and each year reveals a new car at the Walt Disney Family Museum. These cars sell out very fast and I was lucky enough to be able to purchase the 2011 ‘Mickeys Good Deed’ and the 2013 ‘Bambi’ cars from him while there. The 2017 car was releasing on December 2nd and I knew I had to get my order in right away or I’ll miss out.

Well I am glad that I ordered when I did. My car finally came in the other day, and when I went back to his website this morning, the car is already Sold-Out, along with every other year. It will be challenge to find/collect my missing years.

Here is the 2017 Disney Christmas Car ‘Donald Duck’.

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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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