March 2026 Newsletter
What's shakin everyone! Welcome to another riveting newsletter!
Let's get to business
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What's New?
Work continues on the latest addition to the P&B, our New Town behind Old Town. Still have no idea what to call it but the build inches forward each day.
Last month I got some work done on the area in-between the two towns during our Monthly Livestream. We began roughing in the new grain facility and surrounding area and I am quite pleased with how much progress we made in just two hours.
Since that stream, I've continued work around town and am hoping to have another video up relatively soonish™️
The big elephant in the room I'm sure you're all waiting for still lays ahead. I'm of course talking about the Allegheny rebuild. It's going to be a monster project and we're still all discussing exactly how to achieve the main objective: Move and rebuild the steel mill across the river while updating the yard all while maintaining the majority of established geographic boundaries and not removing or damaging local landmarks like the museum.
Ok, so that's more like 3 or 4 things, but let's not focus on that. The point is, there's quite a lot to be done ahead, along with updating all of the terrain and textures to HDT and whatever else this ADHD mind comes up with along the way.
sigh
If you've got some ideas for that part of the route, I'm all ears! Please share them here, on Facebook or in my Discord.
What Else?
There's always something else...I'm of course talking about my N Scale layout.
There's a lot of work happening on there currently as well. I touched on in in the last few layout update videos but the time has finally come to add on the expansion and rip up some perfectly good scenery and functioning track.
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It's all in the name of progress though! The expansion will add two additional stub ended yard tracks, an additional yard track, an additional flex container yard operation, and the thing I'm most excited for, the engine shed and yard office! Yeah. It's going to be awesome. But the stress of it all has been a lot lol.
It's all good though.
I should have a fresh layout update video covering the addition maybe by the end of the month depending how long it takes me to lay and wire some track. I'd like to make sure the video covers a lot!
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Patreon Benefits
Executive: The latest P&B download will be available by the end of the week. Just want to get to a good stopping point before I share the current progress.
Dispatcher: Let's do the monthly livestream on Sunday March 15th at 7pm. As always, let me know if there's something specific you'd like me to work on (route build, reskin, Blender, whatever) otherwise I'll continue working around the P&B.
Weekly Wednesday Sunday Hangouts: Sunday discord hangouts have been working out pretty well for everyone it seems, so we'll keep that trend going. I'm out of town the 21st & 22nd so we may have to reschedule that Sunday to another day. I also have Jury Duty that week so we'll see how that goes 😵💫
Model Railroader: Should have another layout update video pretty soon. I also have another article I'll be working on for RMC that I'll share with you guys when the time is right.
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If you made it to the bottom of this post, thank you!
Make sure to check out some of the free videos I've been sharing on Patreon. Anyone into old railroad paperwork will really enjoy it!
Hope you all have a great spring!