The Hudson Bay Railway in HO Scale

I have enough #6 switches built to relay the Flin Flon yard throat.  I was never happy with my original setup, mostly due to the need to have a siding for the station now that I have backdated to the early 1980's.  There was still a mixed train operating between Flin Flon and Snow Lake in the early 1980's so I needed somewhere for it to come and go from.  However the original track arrangement made it difficult to have a station.  I decided to relay the yard throat to remove a couple of #4 switches, as well as add a siding for the station.  I think the new arrangement looks better and will likely operate better as well.  I'll have to operate the yard for a while to see if anything else needs adjustment.   Generally the yard will be switched from the other end except for the bulk fuel dealer, propane dealer, smelter fuel tanks, station, freight shed and team track (actually that is a fair bit of stuff now that I write it...), and this is the end of the branchline so I won

 I've been hemming and hawing about starting to do my own 3D prints for locomotive and freight car details.  The latest generation of resin printers has really tested my will power.  Seeing what my friends Dave B. and Mike M. have been able to accomplish with their printers got me to give 3D modelling a try.  Mike has offered to let me print on his machine so down the rabbit hole I go.   Thanks to Andrew C. (friend I've only ever met via email and texts) I have plans, measurements and photos of the genset that some of the CN Pointe St. Charles cabooses were equipped with. These were common on branchline trains and were often in use in northern  Manitoba.   Based on Andrew's work I have started doodling up a 3D model of the genset and mounts.  My plan (if it prints) is to convert at least a couple of my TLT PSC caboose fleet to have gensets.  And then the possibilities are endless.  Apparently the new Elegoo Saturn will fit a 50 foot car so that will really open up some poss

 I'm slowly getting some railway themed items put together to go with the layout room.  It is another aspect that is an interest.  While I won't be installing a full sized passenger car in the basement like some people have done, a few small things are starting to show up.   I recently purchased the builders plate and number board from a CN MLW C630m, number 2032.  I also have slides of this unit in CN and its later Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia guise. These along with the air starter instructions I picked up from a sister C630m make a nice framed item.  These now hang in the hallway leading to the layout room.   I have other number boards from various locomotives and some other plaques and builders plates that will start appearing on the wall.  I prefer railway collectibles that are flat and relatively small, as does my wife.  Of course my layout wasn't actually designed and built by Budd...