December 2025 Newsletter
Happy Holiday's, everyone! And more importantly, happy beginning of modeling season 🚂 lol
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What's New?
Well, as mentioned in a recent video, work on the P&B v3 has begun. It's been a pretty slow process so far just updating and cleaning up textures, but I'm about ready to begin diving into some of the heavy lifting parts.
Most of my time so far has been spent retexturing the ballast line and areas immediately around the tracks. I'm getting pretty bored with that so I think I'll be diving into some actual building soon. The first area I'll begin working on will be Old Town and you should see a video on it before the end of the year. Things have been moving pretty slowly due to a tremendous amount of burnout but hopefully after the holidays I'll get some steam goin again. I'm really looking forward to diving into the Allegheny and Allegheny Steel rebuild but I'm wildly unprepared for either of those right now.
Unfortunately I haven't made any additional progress on the sessions or new loco skins and I'm not sure when I'll get back to them.
I've also been working on setting up the N scale layout. I've got it fully mounted to the walls , I repaired the track damaged from the move and it's all operational now (I just need to thoroughly clean the track again).
I also spent a bit of time stripping the paint off two Atlas S2's so I could paint them into units 22 and 25 to fully complete the NYCH fleet. And boy did they come out good! Painting loco's is definitely one of my favorite aspects of the hobby and it kinda sucks that my fleet is now finished. I may go back and redo aspects of my previous work since I'm far more knowledgeable and experienced now.
I'm aiming to have a layout update video out before the end of the year as well.
Patreon Benefits
Executive: The latest P&B will be available by the end of this week. Changelog includes:
Lots of random retexturing throughout the map (Grafton, Grafton to Highland, Highland, the paper mill, Old Town ROW, etc)
The oil refinery behind Old Town has been relocated (that'll be in the next video)
Other bulk texture updates throughout (these will constantly be changing for a while)
Dispatcher: We'll do the monthly livestream on the 17th at 7 pm EST.
Model Railroader: Should have a Layout Update video available soon plus two other videos in the works 😉
Weekly Wednesday Hangouts: I'm considering moving the weekly discord hangouts to Sunday Evenings and I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on that. I'm too burned out during the week these days to keep up with Wednesday evening shenanigans but I don't want to lose them entirely either.
Thanks for all of the support throughout 2025 and I wish you all a happy and safe holiday season!