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Happy holidays

To you, and you, and especially you! All the best for 2026.

Boxes and gons

A few recent additions to the roster for the NS&T

Great time in Calgary

An excellent weekend of meeting people, visiting layouts, and talking trains big and small

Fiat lux

A brilliant upgrade for the Bydemill platform

Steve’s PE express yard

Based on a plan almost a quarter-century old and designed for models older than either of us. I love this.

Final furlongs

Bydemill before the auto

Good neighbours

Adding RoW fencing to Bydemill

On the boardwalk

Eliminating tripping hazards – and extra work for the signal maintainers

Bydemill at 1

Happy anniversary to my first-ever British layout

The fare

How much to town?

GWR 68

The inevitable march of progress.

The big switch stands

These were a hit on Port Rowan, and make a repeat appearance on the NS&T

Crew figures

Adding personality to some favourite models

GWR 19

Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown crane. (I’ll see myself out.)

CNR GS Gons

Walkers Quarry can now ship stone

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