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The 2024 N Scale Enthusiast Convention needed clinicians, and I can’t help myself in front of an audience, so here’s a whole bunch of slides from the ensuing presentation.

This is a very brief description of how I did the grassy area on my New NCR layout, extracted from my layout engineering thread on The Railwire.

Kathy Millatt is an incredibly talented modeler from the UK who, in this video, talks about how to get some scenery colors we might not otherwise have.

I wanted to pull together a list of some of the material I use for my dead season modeling to help others find what they’ll need.

Do you want a good primer on how to model The Dead Season? Go read Mike’s books.

Dead Season modeling.  Although I would love to follow this path, my layout’s chosen setting is an industrial area, totally devoid of trees, save one.  A dead one.   The Long Island Railroad Industrial service, or LIRR IS for short, is a small 1950’s era short line dedicated to servicing local mob owned businesses on a […]

A selection of photos that I’ve taken that inspire my enjoyment of The Dead Season.

My old Windsor St layout was focused on the area around York PA on Conrail’s (somewhat fictional) NCR Line. It was set in December of 1985 and was torn down in November of 2018. For more coverage of this layout, you can check out my site Conrail1285.com.

Back in December of 2021 I took a day to go get some good reference photos for NCR area winter scenery. These are the albums arranged by location.

I loved this photo I took on Brian’s Niles Tower layout so much that I had to do something with it.