Last Thursday was a hurry up and wait day at work :wait: :wait: :wait: . Being right next to the former Lackawanna main ( now New Jersey Trainset ) , I was able to grab a few shots.

First caught this one on it's was back to Hoboken..
   
   

About an hour latter found this one stopped at a red signal.
   

The 300 mm zoom was put to the test to grab this set of MU cars heading west over the bridge.
   

A light power move probably going back to Hoboken terminal.
   

Have a GP38-2 waiting for a sound install on my benchwork.I always installed Tsunamis but looks Esu has awesome sounds and very good motor control. Also want to run trains in a consist.What is your preferred sound decoder?

ATLAS has announced that they will be producing code 55 flex track in Z scale.There are plans for some other Z stuff too but nothing is confirmed yet. I know one guy that is looking forward to it.

Our time is this house is counting down and I had a good thing started and then had to pull it out for house repairs. Bench work has been recycled a few times now. I would like to get reliable trackage done, ground cover and at least mock ups for structures.

Borrowed from the "Givens and Druthers" thread.

(Railroad Name) New Brunswick Railway (NBR)
Scale: HO

Era: 2000ish
Region:Atlantic Canada
Railroad: Freelanced NBR

Describe Space: Bedroom

Governing Rolling Stock:[/b] (Biggest planned) 60' with a four axle locomotive.

Operation Priorities:

Local Freight Operations

Typical operating Crew: __1__

Eye Level (Owner) _52"_In.

Catskill Mountain Railroad 45 tonner #42

   

Just in case you haven't updated to Windows 10, I understand that Microsoft (MS) is sending out popups that show you a date and time it will automatically update your computer to Windows 10. It appears you have but two choices, "update now", or "OK". They say that if you click on either one, you will get updated either right away, or at the chosen time. If you don't want to upgrade, there is another less obvious link in that message that will allow you to change to update time, and I understand you can choose "never" as an option. The advice is that if it starts the upgrade, don't stop it, just wait until it finishes and then roll it back to 7 or 8.

I've upgraded months ago and I'm happy with it.... Not happy with MS though. I needed to update my Weather Channel desktop app, and normally I could just update at Download.com, CNET or automatically at the Weather Channel site. This time it instructs me to go to the MS store and download it. I tried, but I have to log in and so I was forced to register an account. Big mistake. Once you open an account with MS, you are committed to that for everything MS.One account fits all, so they say. Now, I'm the only one that uses my computer, so I don't need a password to log on when it wakes up, that is until I now find I have to use my MS account email address and password to log onto my computer. I forgot what password I used, and I couldn't find it until I logged on with the correct password. After about 42 attempts, I finally guessed right, and went to MS and canceled the account. That made no difference, and now I couldn't make any changes to either the email address or password I used since it was no longer a valid account according to MS. Apparently, MS made the change, but neglected to tell my computer. After battling this for a while, I finally was able to do a "restore" back a few days, and things went back to normal. A real scare since MS forced me to use a password on startup and after a sleep, just like they're forcing people to upgrade to Windows 10 by tricking them.

Oh, BTW, my Weather Channel desktop app never did update, and it won't run the way it is. So much for that.

Just a warning, MS can paint you into a corner and you won't see it coming.

'New Westbrook' is a re-build of my small New England switching layout 'Westbrook' which was built a couple of years ago.

As the images seem to have disappeared from my original thread, here are a couple of pics


   


   


The large silo structure remains along with the warehouse, reduced in size. The run around has gone, however, one track now is used as a spur to receive clay slurry cars for the paper mill.


For comparison, here is the new track plan (old track plan below)

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