I spent an enjoyable hour and a half in the shop today beginning the hand sculpt of the detail on the steam engine. It is amazing really how...

Normally I would fasten the tracks into place and then mount the engine above them. But in this case the engine chassis was purposely warped...

We spent the first part of the day attaching the expanded metal lath to the frame we welded up yesterday. The display piece was relatively...

The next step was to assemble the metal pieces. The beauty of working with CNC cut pieces is that they are deadly accurate. I because I w...

With a fun Christmas day behind us and all of our company gone I found a little time to sneak out to the shop for a little bit today to work...

Building the routing file for a steam train might seem daunting at first glance but it really is a sum of it's parts. In my case I want ...

I started by clipping the train section from the sketch I posted last time. I saved this as a JGP file and imported this into EnRoute. I th...