Here are a couple videos as Youngstown Bill requested.
The first video just shows a pan of the view as I walk in the door of the train room to give a lay of the land.
This one is a video inside the layout main operating area is of the RailKing Western Maryland Pacific #204 pulling a 4-car train of heavyweights. I started the video with the train running below the camera to give a bit of continuity from the first video. The semi-scale RailKing train doesn't look too bad as it passes scale engines and cars. These are the only semi-scale models I run on the layout.
Here is the Altoona Model Works Branchline Station kit as it stands now. The instruction sheets are very well done. I'm following it exactly as directed. So far it is a simple box of Masonite sheathed with thin clapboard siding sections. It has gone together well with Ailene's glue as suggested in the instructions. The next step is to paint the shell, the roof sections, and the doors, windows, and trim. I'll use Western Maryland gray with red trim.
And now for something completely different!
As an aside, I took a few shots of the CN (former B&LE) train going past the Cleveland Cliffs (former Armco) plant as I was going into the Rite Aid pharmacy. There were two engines on the point, and two engines pushing. This is the end of the train, and all the hoppers are still lettered BLE. I finally got photographs that show road numbers of some engines to look up what they are. I can't tell one modern engine from another. These are both SD70M-2, engine numbers 8804 and 8827 on the end.
(And no; I am not standing beside my car. My car is at least 15 years older.) 
