This site is about model and prototype railroading, and features information about my layout building and operating activities, and other layouts.

The C&SFT is a fictional Switching railroad serving the area between the IHB and EJ&E mainlines near the Illinois / Indiana state line, from the mid-1970's to mid-1980's.

The Chatham Industrial RR is a fictional industrial branch located in Chatham, Ontaria, Canada. It is part of the Chessie System and also hosts Canadian Pacific traffic.

Illinook is a 3-2-2 Inglenook style track module 4 x 1.5 feet in size, representing a hot mix asphalt plant, with trackage connecting it to the C&SFT via Forest Junction.

A new industry for the CSFT

It seems like eons since I last did any real scenic work on the CSFT. But last night I started on a new low relief industry for the area next to Bluwall printers. For quite some time the area has been a bit of an eyesore.

Posted by stanford on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 07:25

The Silos is finished

It took a while. But the flour mill / grain silos industry on Chatham is now finished! The finishing touch was a grain unloading shed to suggest covered hoppers being unloaded into the silos. So now the industry can receive various grains in covered hoppers, and can send flour out in covered hoppers or bagged in box cars.
Posted by stanford on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 17:17

A prototype for everything

If you have been in the model railroading hobby for any considerable length of time you may have come across a modeller or 3 who have a passion for getting everything on their layouts to be an exactly copy of the prototype.

Posted by stanford on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 20:09

Operating Observations

With the 2.5 (or is it 3) layouts that I now have I have noticed a considerable difference in how each is operated. If anything, this makes oeprating the layouts even more enjoyable as there is a different emphasis on each one.

Posted by stanford on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 11:03

It's Autumn in Chatham

I had been contemplating for a while the possibility of making Autumn the season modelled on Chatham. Christmas made that a surety. My wife gave me some autumn foliage for Christmas, and so I 'took the plunge' and decided to model autumn.

Posted by stanford on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 06:09

Ideas by accident!

In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered Penicilin by accident, in 1945 Percy Spencer realized the potential for using microwaves for cooking food by accident, and in 1903 Edouard Benedictus made a discovery by accident that allowed him to invent safety glass.

Posted by stanford on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 18:25

Can't see the staging for the trees!

I have been adding some spruce trees to various parts of the Chatham layout today. Partly this is to flesh out the hill that covers the baseboard join. And partly to hide the end of the backscene and the staging. The Chatham layout has been a bit devoid of trees in general and I felt it was about time I remedied that.

Posted by stanford on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 17:58

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