Shakesville Model Railroad

09/26/2026

Busy week here at Shakesville, been doing a lot of wiring for switches and cleaning up older and newer engines.

07/28/2026

05/30/2026

5/29/2026
Spent sometime today working on scenery and repairing engines.
Think the guests of the hotel will be abke to take the noise of the firetruck running all hours of the day?

05/25/2026

Have not posted in a while. Been busy fixing rolling stock and engines that were in a box for a while. Started integrating JMRI into the layout and getting ready to expand the layout already 5-24-2026

05/24/2026

With Garrett's O Gauge Trains – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/17/2026

My dad started this project some years ago. It is a Roundhouse Model fire train. I picked up today where he left off on Louies Fire Brigade. Hope he doesn't mind.......

05/12/2026

05/12/2026

Noticed these cars sitting on the track the other day and had to go back and take a few pictures. Sitting on the siding just South of Spokane Community College and the intersection of Greene and Mission in Spokane, Wa. Federal Railroad Administratio, Office of Safety

05/07/2026

Wednesday May 6 2026 Update.
Been busy working on putting cars back together and putting some building back together after being in boxes for years. I have successfully converted 3 engines from DC to DCC and burned up one decoder on 1 of my original switch engines. I absolutely love working with DCC and now have 6 working engines. Take a look at the video below. I have never been able to get 2 engines actually run together. I am now in the process of interfacing the computer into the picture to track all of the rolling stock along with creating a map of the layout.

04/24/2026

April 24 2026
Cut down the forest yesterday on Mt. Wilkilsher, got rid of the plastic trees and planted new custom made trees. Also did some other color to the mountain.