New stretch of backdrop. The darker row of "trees" along the bottom of the hill are blocked in shadows that still need some addi...

I recently received this email: Marty, At Christmas my wife gave me a Kadee box car from the SNE, #48010. I model 1957 so I have a few qu...

Before an update on the mill stream proper -  In Other News…. Stic came by Saturday and we got quite a number of "small, but annoying...

I'm working on the last section of "open country" on the layout - essentially it's the narrow shelf along the wall jus...

First of all, Happy 2016 to all the readers of this blog.  Technically, the anniversary of this blog is December 17 - I made my first post ...

I received this note from a blog reader early this morning -  "Marty,   One or two words on the blog concerning the latest Word...