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updates on my N-Scale Arcadia Creek and Woodbury Railway currently under construction in Michigan

20210301 AWRY Update 1 – A Catch-Update

Tuesdays With Terry Posted on March 1, 2021 by Pondering PopsMarch 1, 2021

We really need to start at the beginning of the Arcadia Creek story, at least this new era that began in 2014. So I thought maybe we could use one, or a few, “catch”- updates! All aboard!

To get where we are today, I had to start model railroading again from scratch. I was re-entering the hobby after more than ten years, changing scales, living in a different home, and getting acquainted with a lot of new technology. I had been keeping up from my armchair with subscriptions to hobby magazines including Model Railroader and the NMRA magazine, so I wasn’t completely unaware of the state of the hobby, but I had no experience with N Scale, DCC, newer types of sectional track, and many newer modeling techniques. With my decision to take up the hobby again, I needed to acquire some N Scale equipment and give it a try.

To keep the story short, I purchased some locomotives, rolling stock, track, and throttle on Ebay and eventually set up a card table with a circle of track to try running my new acquisitions. Later I bought a used NCE DCC system from a friend to begin experimenting with DCC. I also began researching ideas like building a layout on a door, and joining a modular club using T-TraK. By the end of 2015 I was setting up experimental track plans on my six foot folding table, and making up and running a variety of freight and passenger trains. So here’s where we started 2016 on the Arcadia Creek and Woodbury Railway.

Santa Fe on the AWRY!
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