Hey Track Gang—episode 33 for 2025 is a quick one, because I’m a little behind schedule (it’s Sept 25th) and I just didn’t have a ton of time this week. Between being on call last week, an offsite meeting, a sinus head cold, and me still messing with that desk rebuild (not railroad related), I had to keep the layout work focused and realistic. In this update I’m working the backdrop from the dam scene over to what’ll be the church. The big change is I’ve got green down now, and I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along. I broke out a fan brush to rework the foreground tree line and the grass line so it has a little more depth. Yeah, my back tree line is taller than the front in spots—but the effect works, and I’m not trying to be Picasso or Bob Ross. Next up is getting buildings back in place, finding trees that work (I don’t have the patience to make a bunch of them), and figuring out how to hide that upper “inner urban” track so it doesn’t look like stacked track on the edge of a cliff. I also run through the Fall GSMTS YouTube Meet & Greet plans, the open house, and Sidetrack Sunday details—RSVP link is in the description.