A couple of little Model Railways of Mine which I take to shows, both based on Preserved Railways, Bridge Road Sheds being based on a fictional loco shed on the North Norfolk Railway and Barton Farm being a Narrow Gauge 2ft Railway in Norfolk, based on small narrow gauge railways across the UK and mainly uses Ffestiniog Railway stock.
I couldn’t resist and get my hands on the full set of the Class 395 “Railway 200”. I can’t show the entire set with the other pack of two intermediate coaches as I don’t have enough space on my TV stand:
Once again, I ordered more stuff for my layout. I'm working on adding accessories, so I purchased some power and control equipment so I can get started on more wiring (Oh boy! Wiring is not my favorite thing, but it isn't as hard as it looks. It just takes a long time.) I also purchased a cool Atlas O BN Bicentennial Hopper Car that I wanted (my very first Atlas O freight car). It's going to look cool. I also have an Atlas O Die-cast sand tower for my loco facility. The tower is in BNSF livery, and it will look cool. My stuff should be arriving sometime next week. The layout is coming along nicely.
Embarrassingly I have started an O gauge Tiktok channel recently after being frustrated with the lack of O gauge content.
My latest fleet addition, a Metra F40PHM... My pre-order list is thankfully getting shorter and shorter. Maybe someday we'll find a house for me to actually run these damn things lol.
On the subject of preorders: I have a new locomotive on order. MTH Trains just announced an SD9 "Cadillac" in the Nevada Northern Tourist RR's recently repainted US 250th Anniversary livery. I've ridden on the NN, and I really wanted the loco on my layout. Plus the paint scheme is really cool. The locomotive looks great in pictures. My NN SD9 will probably be here in December or sometime early next year. Now I just need to buy an MTH DCS system to run it. I also did a bunch of ballasting around my loco facility. It turned out so good that I think I will buy some more ballast and do the rest of the track. Then I'm hoping to attend a train show in early September in Boulder City, NV (near Las Vegas, where I live). I plan to start adding more accessories to my layout, as well as more scenery. It's coming along nicely.
New locomotive preordered! Atlas O (yes, you heard that right; I did finally preorder an Atlas O loco!) recently announced a model of UP's new SD70M Abraham Lincoln #1616 locomotive. I like special-liveried diesel locos so I preordered it. The loco features MTH's DCS, and I will have the system on my layout sometime soon since I have the MTH Nevada Northern SD9 #250 on preorder too.
