My passenger car is finished and packed ready to go down to Sacramento to show in the NMRA national show next week. To support my display in Sacramento (and likely in Burnaby this fall, and who knows where else), I threw together a quick 20-page Blurb book on the project. It is laid out like an NMRA merit judging form, and I've pasted the bulk of the content below:

I've been researching for my upcoming clinic on the State of Proto:87, which I'll be giving in Sacramento next week, and found a couple of Aussie sites that indicated that this site hasn't been changing much. What the? If there's one thing I try to do, it's post here occasionally. It usually doesn't appear on the home page because I never particularly considered the home page mine. So, yes the homepage didn't change for years, but the blog has been updated at least every few months.

I've just published the story of Canada Atlantic Number 10, my first scratchbuilt locomotive on Blurb. This is a compilation of progress emails I sent to a couple of email lists over the course of four years as I was completing the model. I got my own copy, and I must say, I quite like having this memento of the construction process. While the web page is always good for shock factor when someone starts to ask me about my hobby, there is something about seeing your words and photos in print that makes you feel accomplished.

I'm not overly excited about them, except to say that they're finally done, per the plan.

The windows in the clerestory are framed deeply for some reason, and the openings were screened over. The only screen material I ever saw that was convincing was some that my friend Brian Pate salvaged from an old anti-glare screen for a computer. And, I don't know how I would have cut so many little rectangles of that stuff. Perhaps I could have etched them, but I doubt I could have got them fine enough to be convincing.