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  • My Love of Model Railroading
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  • Design
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  • Construction
    • Benchwork is the Backbone of the Model Railroad
    • Construction of the Sawmill and Log Pond
    • Rebuilding the Tired Engine Facility
      • Scratch Built Railroad Turntable
      • A New Coaling Tower From out of the Past
    • The Hidden Staging Area
  • Systems
    • The DCC buss is the heart of the layout
    • Block Occupancy Detection on the Wildcat Valley
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The Wildcat Valley Railway
  • My Love of Model Railroading
  • The Layout
    • A Tour of the Layout
    • The WVR at night
  • Design
    • The Wildcat Valley RR Design Rules
    • Final Track Plan for the WVR
  • Construction
    • Benchwork is the Backbone of the Model Railroad
    • Construction of the Sawmill and Log Pond
    • Rebuilding the Tired Engine Facility
      • Scratch Built Railroad Turntable
      • A New Coaling Tower From out of the Past
    • The Hidden Staging Area
  • Systems
    • The DCC buss is the heart of the layout
    • Block Occupancy Detection on the Wildcat Valley
    • Turnout Control on the WVR
    • Layout Lighting
    • Structure Lighting
    • Using JMRI to Control Trains on the WVR
  • My AP Journey
  • Links
  • WVR Blog
    • Blog Archives

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May 1, 2020Uncategorized

Animated Individual

I’d been looking at some other modeler’s efforts at animating figures and objects lately, especially work by Laurie McLean from Australia. He […]

April 15, 2020Uncategorized

Jordan Miniature

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been collecting a few of the Jordan HO scale models on Ebay. They’re a little […]

April 12, 2020Uncategorized

Track Talk

I am a member of the Central Indiana Division of the NMRA. We usually have quarterly modeler’s meets in which we have […]

April 10, 2020Uncategorized

Roundhouse

I managed to get the walls erected and a few interior details in place. Ready to add the roof, but it seems […]

April 6, 2020Uncategorized

Various Projects

Well, I’m still working my regular job for the time being, so I have not had as much time to work on […]

March 27, 2020Uncategorized

Not a Good Day

No pictures, no happy talk, it’s been a bad week. No, I haven’t contracted Covid-19, that I’m aware of anyway, but it […]

March 10, 2020Uncategorized

OK, I’m a little excited…

One aspect of the layout that I have been working on is lighting and with the help of an article on MRH […]

March 9, 2020Uncategorized

Spring time?

It was a beautiful day today in Indiana, Tucker and I took a break from working inside to set on the deck […]

March 2, 2020Uncategorized

Turntable Up and Running

I’ve been working on the layout and really not taken any time to update my blog. I plan for this blog to […]

January 9, 2020Uncategorized

The WVR in JMRI

One of the presents I received for Christmas from my wife – A new 24″ touchscreen monitor! Shown is the current rendition […]

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