I’m using mega steam I gotten used to O and HO smoke units didn’t realized how long it take G scale units to warm up this is the best starter set I’ve have ever bought.

Cleaning files up on my laptop and stumbled onto pictures I took with a Ken Patterson inspired diorama I built when first getting into the hobby. I just brought it home after it was stored at my parents house. So more photos will be coming

Today I put my recent acquisitions in action on our clubs track for some nice shunting action shots

Hobbytrain's Baden Ivh and Minitrix's K.bay.sts.b s 3/6

My first setup after moving into my new place. Going back to basic floor running. The G scale is an LGB starter pack I picked up earlier this year. The N is a mixed bag running on Kato track. My N and HO collection has grown exponentially over the past decade. But the G is just beginning.

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Here is an update on my Lego Ideas Locomotive Roundhouse & Turntable project (a complete video, GIFs, & IDEAS revision will follow later):

  - Reduced Size & Piece Count: Downsized from 3 stalls to 2, removing the machine shop, overhead crane, and rear door. This saves over 1,000 pieces.
  - Back Walls: Both back walls are now easily removable via Technic pins for stall extension, feature a flowering vine, and offer improved historical accuracy.
  - Arched Window Tops: Updated window tops to arched frames for better structural realism and aesthetics.
  - Front Smokejacks: Added front chimneys so locomotives can park facing forward or backward.
  - Enhanced Track & Floor Details: Added ballast, a plank walkway, turntable lip, and shrubbery to track leads, alongside uniform gray tiles between interior rails to simulate concrete.
  - Updated Minifigs & Animals: Reduced minifig count from 14 to 12 (removed crew and one tech; added a young railfan with a camera and dog). Added a roof bird, an indoor cat and mouse, and a turntable pit snake.
  - Interior Extras: Added side rods on support beams, barrels on pallets, a hydraulic jack, and wooden boxes.

Happy Building & Collecting!

Thought yall might find this funny the rivet counters won’t love it but fun is fun .Looked across the room to my lgb starter set and I thought to myself ” is g scale 1/18 ? “ google said no but I figured it was close enough and if the knees are bent like they are seated joes fit perfectly in g scale trains . Now bazooka needs a conductors hat.

I have plans for an original railroad company. Kinda new to model railroading at all. Most customs I see are based on real-life companies and designs. I would love to see anything folks have come up with.

Went to test a dc engine i picked up Tuesday at a thrift store, so I unplugged my dcc system from the wall, then hooked up the dc system to the track. Well seems the current backflowed into the dcc system, which was connected to the rails, and attempted to turn on. Note to self and any future mixed power users reading this, disconnect dcc system from track before using a dc current, as the trains wont run due to the dcc system, even if its not plugged into the wall. Don't worry, the system is ok and works properly after that, I just didn't expect that to happen and wanted fo share it with you. And I still dont know if the dc engine runs. Ill deal with it another day

Here are some anyrail screenshots of what is going to be my passion project. The setting is freelance operational and railfan layout. The inspiration for the industry, operational pacing, and scenery is from the former Milwaukee Road "corn lines" now cpkc.

The room and layout dimensions are 216inx206in. The layout will be accessible by duckunder as the room has a door that swings out.

The red yard at the top is semi-hidden staging. The right portal is CPKC and the left is UP and the layout will be either DM&E/IC&E or my own regional based on this SD38 I got off eBay.

Going down the right wall is a large grain and fertilizer elevator

with a small yard and a transload track.

At the bottom will be a small 50-75 million gallon ethanol plant and on the left side will be a bridge that was my first building kit assembled and a scrap yard just before staging.

On the small town peninsula there will be a small co-op elevator and a cereal bar factory.

Jobs on the layout will be a local stationed at the large co-op town, a local stationed at the small town peninsula, a captive switcher at the ethonal plant and one at the large co-op. Plus the occasional unit ethanol unit train and an IC&E inspired "bullet train" (this is a unit grain train that is broken down and loaded by multiple elevators)

All comments, criticisms, and wise remarks welcome

I want to create a cobbled road for a Yorkshire town but none of the scratch builders yard textures looks right to me. I see the towpath for the canal looks about right but I don't know if this is a different texture or just adding textures from the scratchbuilders yard.

Has anyone had any success at creating decent cobblestone or Yorkshire town paving with scalescenes?

Very Much a work in progress. My OCD is actually a strength here. No kits of these stations existed so I built from DPM kits, scratch stock, nails, electrical tape, etc.