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b"Jim Gifford and Tom start the show talking about documenting an empire. Seth Neumann adds to the discussion on documentation. Clark Kooning talks about new folks entering the hobby through the holiday season and his aluminum layout building kits. Tom introduces the Shelf Layout Design contest (please check out the Model Rail Radio website for more information). John Hunter explains how his new layout is going. Rod Hutchinson gives a couple of updates on his island hopping and an update on what is on his workbench. Edward Traxler is planning a coal washer and discusses On18. Bob Richard talks about 'Old Sparky' (his 1930s Lionel train) that comes out for the holidays and Mike Slater joins in on one of his favorite subjects. Dan Pickard talks about a diorama he's working on for a show and Australian color. Dave Frary starts off talking about ballast and continues with his usual question answering. Chip Anderson talks about modeling Southern California in N scale modules. Chip asks about JMRI and Seth jumps in to answer questions. Lionel quizzes Marty McGuirk about his layout. Seth talks about a show he runs in the San Fran Bay Area. (Sorry folks, the show was edited too late for the meet.) Murray Scholz is removing hidden staging. The Prof has some concerns with Murray's plans. John Hunter talks about Australian pubs and halls. He also discusses rapid prototyping for Australian prototypes. John Garaty and the Prof talk about John's amazingly engineered layout. The Prof and Tom explore custom sounds for layouts and what is going on with DCC loco sounds. Joe Duckworth describes his layout plans. Joe, Tom and Lionel rap about how there is room for everyone in the hobby and how there are many right answers to any given question. Tom welcomes back Richard Stoehrer to give an update on his new interest in operations and building a shelf switching layout. Tom apologizes for January (this turned out to be most factual). Please check out the front of the site to vote in the Berties and also the Shelf Layout Design contest. This is a live internet radio show recorded at 4.30pm Pacific on Saturday every-other-week. For more information, http://www.modelrailradio.com/"