Heres a video I made of a cab ride on the Ontario Southern Railway. It is an ho scale model railroad layout circa 1944. Enjoy the ride.
Scenes from the layout that is no more
New Video. A montage of pict taken of my old Soilent Corporation themed HO scale model railroad layout.
Tiny Homestead – Part Four, Foundation Walls.
The long awaited basement walls are being installed. Not being able to dig down for the basement, we built the basement above current ground with the plan to back-fill the land around the house. The property is in a bit of a low area, a few feet lower than the road, so back-filling the land…
Tiny Homestead – Part Three, Foundation Footers.
This is point where things got complicated. Here in Northern Ohio we have had one of the wettest spring / summers in a very long time. This is a good thing, turns out. The wet weather informed every decision we made from this point on. Our land is on a ridge, which is to say…
Tiny Homestead – Part Two, Excavating the homesite.
After the home-site was cleared, an excavation company was hired to put in a temporary driveway so the construction crews could come in and lay the foundation. This video chronicles the clearing of the driveway area, laying down a stone base to drive on, and clearing and leveling the area that the home will be…
Tiny Homestead – Part One, The Land.
Early last year Lady Lightman and myself purchased a wooded lot in the town we currently reside. The original plan was to simply cut in a small driveway, parking area, a few paths through the woods and set up a picnic area. Once we started this project, we realized that we enjoyed just being on…