An operating visit to the Salt Lake area
For almost 30 years, an operating weekend was held in the Salt Lake City area, called the…
• July 05, 2024
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My engine servicing facilities
My layout of a fictitious Southern Pacific branch line was designed to have, as was SP pr…
• June 23, 2024
Understanding bridges, Part 3: Details
The two preceding posts in this series attempted to provide a broad background for bridge…
• May 15, 2024
SoundRail 2024
In alternate years, the layout owners around Puget Sound, Washington put together an oper…
• March 25, 2024
Understanding bridges, Part 2
In the previous post, I discussed the most fundamental principle of bridge design, the im…
• March 19, 2024
Understanding bridges
Some years ago, I co-authored with my late friend Larry Kline an article about prototype …
• March 04, 2024
Layout origins: Shumala
Some time back, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origins of my layout. I began wi…
• November 12, 2023
A Santa Rosalia fishing boat, Part 2
In the previous post on this topic, I showed some of the prototype photos and information…
• September 19, 2023
Small project: completing a layout structure
From time to time I like to mention modeling projects that, though quite small in scope, …
• September 10, 2023
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