March 2020 Newsletter









This month’s update is chocked full of exciting news !!


Scratchbuilding a Boarding House in O scale is this month’s featured article.  Click the link below to see the steps Jim Harper took to complete the marvelous lineside background structure which augments his Colfax Fruit Growers Association warehouse.  http://www.colorcountrytrains.org/2020/02/colfax-boarding-house-in-o-scale.html

Along with Dave Merrill’s “Cliffs of Sodor” layouts and the Color Country T-Trak Club layout, the Lionel layout was displayed at the Kanab Train Show on February 21-22.  Photos are posted at http://www.colorcountrytrains.org/2020/02/kanab-train-show-february-21-22-2020.html.  Scroll down past the train show poster to view the pictures of all the layouts and participants.  Full coverage of the Lionel layout from early design and construction to Phase I completion is the subject of April’s featured model railroad.

After many months of delays, the Children’s Playroom G scale layout is finally complete.  This past Tuesday, Al Thorne and members of the G scale Group (Larry Schneider, Tim Fitch, Keith Johnson, Evelyn and Dick Wilson) finalized the project by laying track, connecting wiring, and running the Circus Train on the around-the-room loop.  See the group photo here.

A full chronicling of the project including the plexiglass platform installation by Desert Star Glass Interiors is the subject of May’s featured model railroad.



Until next month,

ALL ABOARD !!