Modelling Maine Railroads

I know that I said that this post would not be as wordy as the last post, but it will nearly be as wordy. Hopefully it will be readable and a few people will read through it. On my last post, I recieved a comment suggesting that I build modules based on my own standards rather than free-mo standards. This, I think, is a very good idea, and I will probably use this idea for the layout that I am planning. I guess that this idea should have been a fairly obvious one as I have been looking at various modular designs, but I somehow got stuck limiting myself only to free-mo, and I was unable to think abput any other options than freemo modules or a shelf layout. I think that a modular approach with standards set by myself would proabably be the best available option for what I'm generally planning at the moment. While I had previously thought that freemo would be the only modular option, I started having doubts that that approach to model railroading would work for me while writing t...

I haven't been very good at posting lately, and I don't really have any reason not to. I have been fairly active with model rqilroading in the last few weeks, but I haven't felt inclined to post much, and I'm not quite sure why. At any rate, I'll use this post to breifly describe some of the model railroading related things that I've done recently. I scratchbuilt two structures recently. One was a model of a Canadian Pacific statation closely followinng the station in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. I also scratchbuilt a feedmill that was not based of any particular prototype. I will cover these buildings more extensively in separate posts soon.  I also recently acquired a new locomotive. This locomotive is the Bachmann model of CP Rail alco S2 number 7020. I acquired this locomotive for a planned shelf layout based on CP Rail in the late 1970s, probably set in the maratime provinces. I built a small ( ten inches by 54 inches) scenery test layout. I liked how ...