
| Deerfield River Valley Railroad The Hoosac Route of the Boston & Maine RR Greenfield to North Adams In Ho Scale Iv always dubbed it the Busted & Mended Model Railroading Is Truly The Greatest Hobby In The World.! |
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| The river scene is finished but we are going to build another on the other side of the layout once we get around to that location. |

| My favorite Locomotive is the EMD GP38-2 and I have quite a few of them along with GP40-2's. Who knows what the Boston & Maine would have acquired if Guilford had not bought the B&M in 1983 so its a real possibility they could have bought into a lot of SD type power painted in the blue & white. |

| From left to right Jim Fuller - Sue Picone - Ed Richardson - Dean McGranahan - Diane Fuller - Marcy Bibbo Phil and Brenda Opielowski. Jamie Girouard not pictured wasn't with us the day the group photo was taken. All of these people over the years have had a lot to do with the creation of this Model Railroad in one way or another and I cant thank them enough..! |

| The East Deerfield yard below is gone having been destroyed by tornado damage back on June 1st. 2011 so we've had a lot of reconstruction going on and some rather large projects with building new industry's and a much bigger project will be getting under way with building a power plant plus a Coal Mine in this now open large space. |
| I had been buying up a lot of these two versions of Athearn HO Open top Hoppers to put together several unit Coal Trains on the Layout and I lucked out at the Big E Train show with finding a man their that had 22 of the black version Hoppers above at a very good combined price and the cars were already upgraded. Now I have 62 of the black and 121 of the blue to pretty much complete what I have been looking for. Every car is being fitted with newer trucks, couplers, loads, and weathered. I'm not changing the car numbers and plan on doing a few videos to upload on Youtube using both versions of these cars. I'm building a Coal Fired Power Plant and a Coal mine to use all of these cars for long unit Coal Trains. |

| Downtown Greenfield |




Tonight 5-22-12 Ed & Dean were here and Dean continued working on the old Howard Johnson's Restaurant to rebuild it, the old one needs a lot of dress up work to bring it back fresh and new looking. Ed and I finished the shelving for the large TV in the corner of the rear layout area, we cut the last two small corner sections and put them in place along with the center leg to handle the heavy load. "See photos below" |
| Your now viewing an HO Model Railroad that started back in 1958 and is basically the same today in style as it was back then. It has gone through a lot of changes over the last 50+ years from being small in size on a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood to very large in a full 24 x 40 basement but now for the last 8 years it has been reduced to a mostly island type Layout in a 20' x 14' converted garage and staying that way. Do you like to build, kit-bash, paint, operate, and spend time with a good bunch of people then join us every week or as often as you can make it and be a part of "workin On the Railroad" on Tuesday evenings from 6:00pm to 10:00pm or other nights open as well even on the weekends. We get together and work on different projects and we don't charge dues and if you decide to become a regular member I will pay for a full yearly subscription to RMC or MR magazine or a publication of your choice sent to your home for as long as your in our group. We also offer snacks and refreshments and the talk isn't always about Trains. We are located in Monson Mass about 4 miles south of Palmer and the famous CP83 home of the town of Seven Railroads and one of New England's best train watching locations along the CSX, New England Central, and the Mass Central Railroad at the Palmer Diamond and famous Palmer Railroad Station. We may be old fashioned but still a lot of fun so stop by and take a look. |



| An SW9 Switcher is making it's daily stop at the Zoar Grain Mill to leave a car. |

| People are gathering for the Weds night band concert at the town square Gazebo. |

| I often times operate Guilford power but most of the time its B&M Locomotives that operate on this Layout. Its getting to the point that you don't see much Guilford Grey anymore and see Norfolk Southern or Pan Am.. I'm not into those at all..!! |
| Hoosac Junction |

| Ed and I finished building the corner shelf and I'll have Jamie paint it this weekend. On our meeting on the 29th we'll set the TV on the shelf and then I'll hook it up to the Satellite and DVD player and can watch Railroading videos along with The Three Stooges shorts and movies that I have. |