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Directions#95 March Status Report
March 5, 2015
The MVGRS team of EJ volunteers recently completed the upgrading of the lighting in the buildings in Middle Period City. As we did this, we noticed that some of these buildings, especially those facing the large locomotive wheels across the aisle from the city, begged to have interior detail added to their ground floors. The […]
Read More >#94 February Status Report
February 3, 2015
Like last month, this month’s report will be a look back at the history of one of the scenes on the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout, showing how it has evolved over the years. The choice this month is the “Modern Yard,” the last scene a visitor comes to before exiting the layout. This too was […]
Read More >#93 January Status Report
January 14, 2015
The Big Train Project Status Report (Part 93) This month’s report will be a bit different from previous reports. It will be a look back at the history of just one of the scenes on the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout, showing how it has evolved over the years. The choice of a scene for this […]
Read More > #92 December Status Report
December 3, 2014
This month’s report will look again at changes and additions that have been made to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. As usual they will be described in the order in which you would see them as you proceed along the aisle through the layout. The first new addition is a garden adjacent to the inn […]
Read More >#91 October Status Report
October 13, 2014
This month’s report will again be in two parts: the first is a quick update on the foundry which was the subject of last month’s report; the second is a report on the completion of the lighting upgrade of the major Middle City buildings. The Hamilton Foundry has found its rightful place on the EnterTRAINment […]
Read More >#90 September Status Report
September 10, 2014
This month I’ll cover two subjects: a follow up of last month’s report, showing you the mobile homes now in their assigned locations on the EnterTRAINment Junction layout; and another preview of some more superb modeling, which will soon grace the layout in the Middle City. The mobile homes are now located in the industrial […]
Read More >#89 August Status Report
August 13, 2014
This month I’ll give you another preview of coming “attractions,” models which are finished but haven’t yet been placed on the layout. They are three new models of mobile homes. As before this gives us the opportunity to see and appreciate some of the exquisite detail which may be hard to see once these models […]
Read More >#88 July Status Report
July 13, 2014
This month we’ll again look at what’s new on the EnterTRAINment Junction Layout. As usual the order of the items shown will be in the approximate order in which you’d see them as you progress along the aisle through the layout. Up on the mezzanine, above the railroad museum theater, is a model of the […]
Read More >#87 June Status Report
June 7, 2014
This month we’ll look at some of techniques used by EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) volunteers to upgrade the interior lighting in one of the largest and most complex buildings in the EJ layout’s Middle City, the Central Tool and Machine Company building. The reasons this building was so difficult to light was that it was very […]
Read More >#86 May Status Report
May 20, 2014
This month we’ll have a preview of a new addition to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout and a look at the results of a further lighting upgrade in the Middle Period city. Another exquisite model, this time of a mid-20th Century store, Wood’s Grocery (Figure 1), was built for the area surrounding the Middle Period […]
Read More >#85 April Status Report
April 18, 2014
This month we’ll look at recent changes to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. As usual, we’ll see them in the order in which you would see them as you followed the aisle through the layout. The first change to report is the recent update to the lighting in Middle City Greyhound Bus Depot and the […]
Read More >#84 March Status Report
March 13, 2014
This month we’ll look at the details of a feature recently added to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout in the area of the Middle Period engine servicing facility. This area has always been visited by an interurban car from the Middle Period city; however, there was no way for passengers to get to and from […]
Read More >#83 February Status Report
February 13, 2014
This month we’ll look at some artworks recently added to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. Contrary to our normal order, they’ll be shown in reverse order, starting nearest the layout exit and proceeding back along the aisle to the Modern City. This type of artwork is part of modern culture, quite common in today’s world, […]
Read More >#82 January Status Report
January 21, 2014
The Big Train Project Status Report (Part 82) This month we’ll look at some recent changes to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. As usual, they’ll be shown in the order in which you’d see them as you follow the aisle through the layout. The first change is in the lumbering area across the aisle from […]
Read More >#81 Decemeber Status Report
December 21, 2013
The Big Train Project Status Report (Part 81) This month we’ll look at two things of note on the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. The first is the annual Christmas layout. The second shows some of the methods of upgrading the interior lighting of buildings in the Middle Period city. The Christmas layout is an annual […]
Read More >#80 November Status Report
November 21, 2013
The Big Train Project Status Report (Part 80) This month we’ll look at two things of note on the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. The first is the variety of camouflage methods used to hide switch machines (the actuators that set the points of turnouts). The second is the latest major scenic feature to be added […]
Read More >#79 October Status Report
October 21, 2013
The Big Train Project Status Report (Part 79) This month we’ll look again at recent changes to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. As usual, we’ll look at the features in the order in which you’d see them as you follow the aisle through the layout. The first new addition comes from the “founders” of the […]
Read More >#78 September Status Report
September 14, 2013
The theme of this month’s report has got to be “fixing things left undone.” There are a lot of changes that have been made to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout over the years. Most of them don’t happen instantaneously. This article looks at two features of the layout as examples of the continuous improvement philosophy […]
Read More >#77 August Status Report
August 14, 2013
With all the attention I paid recently to the Coney Island model, I haven’t had the chance to give an update on some of the other changes that have been made to the EnterTRAINment Junction (EJ) layout. As part of the upgrade of the mezzanine area, which included the Coney Island model, the entire mezzanine […]
Read More >#76 July Status Report
July 13, 2013
This is a continuation of our look at EnterTRAINment Junction’s (EJ’s) newest attraction, its model of Cincinnati’s Coney Island amusement park. The model officially opened on June 21, 2013, with some new and impressive features to make the nostalgic trip back to 1965 better than ever. In the center of the layout area’s mezzanine is […]
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