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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

Tag: model train

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

December 26, 2018Uncategorized

Planning for Control

To recap – I plan to stick with Digitrax systems for controlling trains because the WVR has a significant investment in that […]

December 1, 2018Uncategorized

Planning begins

I have started planning the new and improved version of the Wildcat Valley Railway which will be a pre-war era, 1920’s-1930’s mostly […]

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