I pretty much slept on the Athearn ATSF GP7U releases, but then stumbled upon this Craig Walker shot (note the date!). Luckily, I was able to score two units with and without the DB blister. They will get renumbered to match these two. And there's an Atlas NOPB FMC box car sitting on my desk so I can really recreate this scene. Sort of.

Link:  http://railpictures.net/photo/457194/

Trackplan 2.0 - just some minor updates.

Higher res version here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqkcji0rq8r1ega/LAJ%20layout%202-20-18.jpg?dl=0

I'm still alive!

Yeah... I see I have been doing a very good job in updating this blog.  :)

The good news is, the layout is 100% operational.   I am actually in the planning scenery/ballast phase.  Well, what I should really do is tackle how am I going to do the bridge over the 710 freeway...

I'm also plugging away in creating waybills.   I've done some refinements over the months and finally settled on a format which I will share at some point.

So yes, I am still alive, the layout is still alive.  Perhaps its the "need more motivation" part of layout building. 

Onward!

Chris