By Russ Segner

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a little shut in by the news. My wife, Susan, and I have plenty of supplies and are not venturing out for awhile. So, what to do? Susan has her knitting and we are both brushing up on our cooking skills.

I have decided to really get serious about finishing my MMR. So, time to build those four scratch built cars. It is also time to finish some detail work on structures and scenes that I hurried through when building my layout. Speaking of the layout, I really miss the time we had planned to share with the recent Sound Rails visit by model railroaders from out of our area. I also will miss our local layout tour in Tacoma.

The one other thing I am doing is preparation of a video presentation describing my layout and how it operates. This will let me share with those visitors who had planned to be here for Sound Rails and who will not get to see my layout. I am suggesting that many of you who have layouts also prepare presentations of your layouts to share by means of our 4D website.

This is an opportunity to share with all in the 4D what you are doing on your projects as well. How about a three to five minute video or a short article with photos?  Just send the link to your youtube video and a summary description to gi_editor@4dpnr.com.

I have posted some short segments on YouTube which will be a part of the larger presentation. Search for Coal Creek Lumber Company.

Russ