Terrific tutorial on the dirt roads, I've never been one to purchase dirt but had found that baseball diamond dirt works well when you sift it, I was doing some scenery one winter and found that our lumber store actually carried it. I would use earth colored latex paint as the base and put down the dirt and let it dry and vacuum.

Kyle your work is looking good, I like the idea of the TT to only change the direction of the engine , it'll make your train running more challenging which is a good thing.

Very nice long run layout , love the bridge .

Two pages of nice work.

The layout is coming along really nicely.

Thanks folks for taking the time to bringing me upto speed, it's really a shame to loose so many memories with great builds and modellers and I don't know about you but my memory isn't the best but I always knew where I subscribed to and saved certain builds, oh well life goes on.

I've been in a number of groups over the years, 2006 seems to ring a bell and many group sites have up and disappeared, what happened to RRL?

Super well done, impressive.

Looking good Tom , all those windows though .

You're doing a real nice job on this kit, I built the same a couple years back.

Steve very sorry to read you are dismantling the layout , I know it's been 4 months since you announced it and I'm hoping you didn't . I've gone through the same phase in years past and regretted the disassembling and eventually realized that it's a hobby and not sometimes full time hobby. Unless you really need the real estate that it opens up I wouldn't disassemble. I'm sometimes months doing anything on my layout but I'm happy I've rebuilt.

Well done with some nice weathering.

Steve it took me slow reading and viewing from my last comment in 2019 and although I wanted to skip ahead I resisted and made it to page 29, just super work and totally enjoy following along.

Looks great Tom. Couple thoughts or things I discovered/ tried this year. After giving up searching for my Bragdons HO scale nail wheel and not liking the struggle I was having with the Excel pounce wheel I bit the bullet and reordered the Brandon wheel, highly recommended as it's easier to line up with a steel ruler compared to the Excel bottom of handle riding up on the ruler and a much nicer nail hole. The second thing I've been trying is make nail holes with walls laying flat and then windows signs etc then assemble walls and as a final step I then give the walls a final A/I wash.

I must say I'm very happy the site is back up, but even more happy I can start following your great builds again. Excellent work.