And a life line from a guest author

After my last post a friend of mine shared his collection of Marklin track plans with me on DropBox to tide me over the move. Nothing like German Train Porn. Truly hard core.

Markus is now a guest author on my blog. Let's see what he's up to in Marklin HO. Are you building a model railroad? Let me know if you want to share!

The bags are packed...well sort of.

We're nearly ready to move out of our current place and into the new one (with the train room)! I've been contemplating making an a larger train layout now that I have my own space for it so I'll be scanning the web for ideas.

Most of my hobby stuff is now packed into shipping boxes so all my activities will have to be on-line. Just noticed a nice little Arduino board with built in Ethernet: Etherten

Apart from the model railroad, the new house will need a sprinkler system and I'm thinking of this as a candidate for driving it. After all, it's just a model railroad with water instead of trains surely?

Slow going...

Folks, just a brief update to let you know that I have not abandoned this blog. I'm in the process of trying to sell my house so I have no space to work in at the moment. The house has to be pristine for the purposes of selling it.


However, the new house I will be moving into has a man-cave that will become my dedicated model railway room! You can see it right at the bottom of the house under the stairway.

So, expect lots of new stuff soon. As soon as we sell this place. But then, even more when I have my own train room!!