Placerville

A train buddy of mine suggested I capture my Placerville General store in black and white like the photo I used as reference. I did not get the angle quite right, still missing the flag and bike, but it’s a reasonable match. I can’t wait till I build Placerville! Now that the section house is finished, time for the next structure. For the next structure, I decide to see what I could do with my laser cutter and made the Tool Shed. [Read More]

I have been working on Placerville since 2018 and posted a few updates on groups.io. Steve Depolo’s work in Placerville has been inspirational, and motivated me to share my build of Placerville. This is my first major post and project in the last few years. I got to know Mike McCarville over the last few years and have been collaborating with him on a few chimneys. Mike did the Placerville post office which was a fun project to build, but it needed the chimney. [Read More]

This is my first entry but it’s a bit about the past. I have added a bit of my history and previous layouts in the various links. Not going to blog about that, other than if I add an update. For years, I have been working on a bedroom sized shelf layout. I dreamed of a larger space for my layout but was reasonably content. Then I retired, the pandemic hit, and I met a group of folks that have top notch layouts, and regulalary operate on them. [Read More]