{"id":887,"date":"2026-06-14T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:57:18","slug":"june-2026-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/14\/june-2026-update\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2026 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mentioned on my personal Facebook page I have Oesophagus Cancer. I have now had 3 out of 4 pre-op Chemo sessions and if the tumor has shrunk enough they plan to operate for its removal in a month or so. However it is clear that the already almost impossible task of bringing the Denver&#8217;s RailRoads N scale layout (which is housed in a 4 car garage in my garden) to an operational stage is now just not going to happen, even if I regain most of my strength after the final 4 post-op Chemo sessions. I will be close to 80 years old by then and it is time to face reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But . . . I have been a model railroad layout builder since I was 28 years old and found this wonderful hobby that has dominated my life ever since. And I have a huge amount of rolling stock and locomotives, not to mention unbuilt kits, scenery materials, signals and various electronic devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consequently I have began the planning of a new 4&#8242; x 8&#8242; (with a staging extension) N scale layout that I can build inside my house and will enable me to achieve, be it on a smaller stage, a number of modelling activities (eg weathering, signaling, auto train control, scenery and kit building) currently awaiting the completion of at least the wiring of the Denver&#8217;s RailRoads layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch this space . . . for step by step planning and details of the new layout!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned on my personal Facebook page I have Oesophagus Cancer. I have now had 3 out of 4 pre-op Chemo sessions and if the tumor has shrunk enough they plan to operate for its removal in a month or so. However it is clear that the already almost impossible task of bringing the Denver&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}