by Bernard Traffic | Apr 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last weekend my 11-year old son and I took VIA Rail from Toronto to Ottawa for a quick two-day father/son road trip. The main reason for the trip was for some onboard railfanning but I hadn’t been on VIA in many years and was curious to see how it measured up. I...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Like most modelers I seem to have an endless list of unfinished projects. Many projects start, but very few seem to finish. So in the spirit of making January new year’s resolutions, and in the hope that by writing them down they will miraculously get done, I...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
I went to see the Mystical Landscapes exhibition at the AGO last week and it got me thinking about light. Specifically how I was lighting the layout. What got me going on this theme was the series of haystacks by Monet. The series is known for its ‘thematic use...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
My goal for the layout this holiday break was to get the mainline loop completed so that I could run trains out of staging, do a complete loop around the layout and then back into staging. I am happy to report that yesterday, under the watchful eye of fellow...
by Bernard Traffic | Dec 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
In retrospect, I will remember 2016 as the year that I discovered operations. I knew early on that I wanted to build the layout so that it would be more than a railfanning concept and could eventually grow (with me) into full operations. But I had no idea what that...
by Bernard Traffic | Dec 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
I mean really trashed it. And not to recreate a prototype photo or to model an effect. Have you ever been soooo FRUSTRATED that something wasn’t working out the way that you wanted it to, that you just said ‘F*%K-IT’ and smash…you destroyed...
