A weekend of fun

On Thursday April 10 the NCS&SS and the Wilmington Railroad Museum set up their modular layout in the gym of a church activity center/school in Wilmington NC. I arrived at 1 pm and found the first vehicles having just started unloading.The last of the modules arrived somewhere between 2 and 2:30 pm. My modules were the last to be connected at 3:30 and the mainlines were declared tested and operational at 4 pm. Pretty darn good if you ask me.

Here is what 7000 sf of modular HO layout could look like.

A train traveling at about a scale 30 mph would take about 15 mins. to travel the entire length of the mainline.
The layout was packed up and hauled home on Saturday afternoon. The next gig is in September near Charlotte NC.

Sterling Salt

This will be my last post on the subject of weathering freight cars for a while. I'm kind of tapped out on weathering and am back in the mood for doing structures and scenery.

The model is an Atlas Trainman car I found at a trainshow last fall. I have added no details, and modified nothing. All I did was put about 8 hours into the weathering over a span of about 2 weeks.

I think this is my best work thus far.