My layout is a set for photos and movies.  Here are some scenes created.  Also, don't forget to visit my YouTube channel.  See links below.

Period Vehicles - 1948-1952

My layout is set in a relatively narrow time period of 1948 to 1952.  That provides for plenty of steam as well as first-generation diesels.  I limit my motive power and rolling stock to what would have appeared during that period.  Since my layout is largely complete, I can spend time on details such as vehicles.  What is on the roads should also match the 1948-1952 time period, so I am always looking for interesting vehicles from that period and the prior years.  Some of my vehicles date back to the 1930s, but the majority are 1940s until 1952.  Most of the vehicles are either resin kits, 3D printed, or kitbashed and detailed commercial vehicles.

1941-47 Ford COE, 1941-47 Chevy COE

1949+ White 3000 COE tractor (GHQ metal kit) and gas tanker (Trainworx)

1950 Nash 2-door sedan, 1951 Nash 4-door sedan

1951 Cadillacs, 1948 Chevy Woody wagon, 1951 Pontiac Chieftain (all Madaboutcars on Shapeways)

1940+ White Super Power tractor (Sylvan Scale Models)

Revive this blog.

 Although I have been away from this blog for a long time, I have been busy working on rolling stock, a few new structures, vehicles, and other details.  Although this is a small layout, basically complete for about twenty years, there is always things to do to make improvements.  Among the changes was a switch to DCC that could not have been easier.  The DC system with two cabs already had selector to switch any sector between the two cab controls.  I simply replaced one cab with a Digitrax DCC station and the other cab remains DC.  Any track or sector of the layout can be switched back a forth between DC or DCC, so I can run either DCC equipped locomotives or my older DC locomotives at the same time (on separate tracks).  

I have also added a Woodland Scenics Just Plug lighting system for some of the structures.  This lighting system is not inexpensive, however it is very well designed.  Since the layout is basically a photo and video set, the lighting level adjustment on each part of the lighting system is very useful for adjusting light levels for photographs.   

Most of the layout photography is now done with my iPhone.  I use Helicon Focus to stack photos with different focal points into one photo with good depth of field.  This can be done with an iPhone by touch focusing throughout the screen to select any number of focus areas.  It works so well that I have several magazine articles published with photography solely with iPhone photos.  An example is below.