First Post

Hello All- Welcome to the Nottingham Subdivision Blog. My name is Wayne Woodland and I live in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. I was going to start a website several years ago for my model railroad, but never got around to it/ didnt want to have to pay for it. Since then I have seen many model railroad blogs and thought that it would be a great way to do this. I have been into modelrailroading for many years, with the usual break occuring in High School and afterwards service in the military. I have been back in the hobby continously now for approx 12 years. The Nottingham Sub is my second layout in this time period. The layout is base upon a fictional junction between the Maine Central and CN set in the era of the early 70's. The layout is in a room with 12X 22 in size. I have been working on this layout for approx 5 years now. I have done all the work by myself and am now in the scenary phase with it approx 50 % completed. The layout is DCC equipped with the Lenz 100 system. I previously used the Atlas Commander system (bulid by Lenz) and when the time to upgrade came, I decided to go with Top -of the Line Lenz system as I could use many of the existing components such as Throttles and Power bus connections. The Lenz is a great system and I feel much easier to use than some other systems (aka Digitrax).Most of my locos are Atlas with some Kato and Proto 2000 as well. I also have a Bachmann 2-8-0 with a Soundtrax sound decoder. The majority of my locos are equipped with TCS decoders, as I have had very good luck with these and again much easier to program than Digitrax. There you go a basic introduction to the Nottingham Sub. I'll try to post updates often- be sure to come back and catch the latest.Cheers.