modeling the SP

I hosted the fifth operating session of 2018 on my layout on September 22 and 23. As always, a few features had been updated or added, and m...

I realize that to some, my post title today may sound like one of those “life coaching” subjects. Not that I haven’t learned a few life less...

This thread about walkways and sidewalks is really a kind of reporting of my own efforts to remedy my lack of these features on my layout. A...

Because I have been interested in realistically operating a model railroad since I was a teenager (with my newly built Pine Tree Central, a ...

Last month, John Rogers organized an operating weekend for visiting operators, for layouts in and around Missoula, Montana (and one in White...

I have seen the use of plastic J-strips all around the country, used to hold waybills, car cards, or whatever the paperwork is, for the part...

This series of posts in my blog addresses the topic of the paved walkway areas (sometimes in the role of sidewalks) that most of us need mor...