New
things on the model railroad. Scroll down for a reverse
chronological listing of changes and additions. 10/11/06
Mockup and trackwork on the
Shoebox Inglenook 8/26/06
Progress on the Viduta Timber
Company (formerly The Next Layout) 7/14/06
The AHM Baldwin is nearly
done! 6/21/06
Front Pilot for the AHM Baldwin 6/20/06
Rear coupler for
the AHM Baldwin 6/14/06
Front coupler and pilot for
the AHM Baldwin 6/1/06
A new addition to the Motive Power roster 5/26/06 The
AHM Baldwin gets a paint job 5/23/06 Chassis
mods on the Chivers Baldwin conversion 5/17/06 Test
fitting the details on the AHM Baldwin 5/14/06 The
AHM Baldwin gets handrails, sunshades, etc. 5/09/06 The
AHM Baldwin gets larger steam cylinders 3/24/06 Some
real weight for the AHM Baldwin 3/21/06 Terrain
is forming on The Next Layout
and
Converting
an AHM Baldwin to a LifeLike 0-6-0 chassis 2/14/06
Switchbacks and water channel on The
Next Layout 2/1/06
Dual gauge track on The Next Layout 1/26/06
The Next Layout gets some roadbed 1/18/06
All-foam support structure for the Next Layout 1/16/06
Fitting track on the Next Layout 1/13/06
A new look at the Next Layout
and
Baldwin
remotoring complete. 1/01/06
Work begins on a Chivers Baldwin
conversion - first, a Nigel Lawton remotoring kit.
and
The
Climax gets a crew. 12/01/05
The Climax nears completion - metal roof,
siphon hose, and firewood. 11/26/05
A spark arrestor for the Climax. 11/21/05
The Climax gets a roof and siphon piping. 11/13/05
Weathering the Climax 11/04/05
The Monte Sano RR gets a steam dummy! 10/28/05
Steam engine and piping in place. 10/25/05
Steam cylinders and piping start to take
shape. 10/21/05
Some paint and details on the Climax. 9/05/05
The
Climax gets sideboards and roof supports. 6/21/05 The
Climax gets handrails for the water tank end. 6/12/05 Tropical
Storm Arlene keeps me indoors, so the Climax gets some stake pockets 5/13/05 A
flatcar is added to the rolling stock 5/10/05 Work
starts on the Class A Climax 1/3/05 The
Egger-Bahn and the Plymouth meet on the trestle 1/2/05 Flyaround
view of the Monte Sano Railroad Layout 1/1/05 Americanized
Egger Bahn loco on the layout 12/30/04 Cabelet
Spring scene is improved 10/08/04
Stone moves on the
conveyor to the cars. 9/18/04
The stone crusher scene
comes together
9/7/04
Some work on the Shoebox
Inglenook
4/13/04
Bell, whistle, and pilots
4/11/04
The Egger Bahn pilots with MT
couplers
3/23/04
Detailed pictures
of the Plymouth coupler installation 3/22/04
Egger Bahn decoupler for the Shoebox Inglenook
3/22/04
A toolbox and some tiny tools for both locos
3/19/04
The
Plymouth diesel is finished!
3/18/04 The
Plymouth diesel is painted 3/18/04
The Egger-Bahn cab is repainted
2/19/04 The
Egger-Bahn gets smokebox and cab paint
2/18/04 The
Egger-Bahn gets spark arrestor
2/16/04 The
Egger-Bahn gets a headlight and a coal bunker
2/15/04 More
work on the Egger-Bahn loco
2/13/04 New
Dome arrangement on the Egger-Bahn loco
12/23/03 A
portable boiler to provide steam for the rock crusher scene
12/16/03 A
suggestion for "The Next Layout" from Larry Smith
12/15/03 A
steam engine for the rock crusher scene
12/10/03 A
new design from Jon Songøygard for "The Next Layout"
12/06/03 Revised
version of "The Next Layout"
A
Christmas micro layout
12/5/03
More work on
the Plymouth
"critter"
11/18/03
Making a Plymouth
"critter"
11/5/03
bonus kitbashed
cars
Shoebox
Inglenook (click button above)
11/11/03
Work starts
on Americanizing the Egger-Bahn
10/30/03 Cabelet
Spring scene
10/27/03 the
trestle gets some bracing
10/22/03 ballast...
10/20/03 the
track is laid! 10/20/03
video of the
Egger-Bahn
on track 10/19/03 the
ravine gets some vegetation and the trestles are in place 10/14/03 a
view of the stones under the trestle 10/14/03
a plethora
of 4 wheelers 10/14/03
Two AHM Baldwins
join the roster 10/12/03 stones
from the actual site
9/18/03
exposed styrofoam covered and
stained 9/14/03
decisions on finishing the
exposed styrofoam 9/7/03
the moonshine still gets some
copper piping 9/03/03 the
line gets a gondola 9/1/03
the still is located in a grove
near the spring 8/29/03
a moonshine still 8/28/03
added a
page on steam dummies 8/23/03
water features 8/18/03
test fitting the trestle at the
front of the ravine 8/16/03
the big ravine gets a trestle at
the upper end 8/13/03
trees! & I split the construction
into two pages. 8/11/03
some ground cover added 8/10/03
rock outcrops get color 8/10/03
the little caboose gets an
update 8/8/03
surface texture and rock outcrops 8/3/03
added pictures of scenes to be modeled 8/2/03
the terrain gets some plaster cloth added
7/26/03
added photo of
Egger-Bahn loco on
the oval
7/26/03 added photos of Plymouth and
Egger-Bahn locos |
Hello, my name is John Hubbard. I started
this site in July, 2003.
While living in Florida, I had no model
railroad. One day, inspired by the efforts documented on
the HOn30 Yahoo! group and
Carl Arendt's Micro Layouts site, and having been without a model railroad layout
for about four years (I dismantled my last layout for a move and
just never got started again), I decided to build a micro layout in
HOn30 on two A sized
pieces of paper, or 11 by 17 inches. This became the Monte Sano
Railroad, and its building is documented in the MSRR Construction
section of the site.
Early in 2005, we moved back to Huntsville, Alabama,
and most of my modeling has been on a Class A Climax in HOn30. See
the Climax page (under Motive Power) for the construction.
With the Climax pretty much done, a Chivers Baldwin conversion on a
Bachman 0-4-0 is next. See Chivers under Motive Power.
I've also started a project to fit an AHM Baldwin locomotive shell
to a LIfe-Like 0-6-0 chassis. See AHM Baldwin Conversion
under Motive Power.
Along the way, I've planned a couple of new layouts,
see Shoebox Inglenook and The Next Layout (now called Viduta
Timber company), a micro logging
layout, and worked on
some other things.
Feel free to follow links around the site.
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