Just to put a bow on the use of Clever Models in my Hazleton addition to my layout, I thought I'd take a picture of all of the structures...

The remaining areas to address on my layout include the sections between the track and the edge of the layout - most of which are...

As I've indicated in prior posts, I belong to an online community called Big Blue Trains. I enjoy sharing my work with them, but the...

A working Intermountain SD40-2 chassis with DCC was recently up for bid on ebay for a ridiculously small opening bid. I bit. ...

Wanted to show what's possible to build with the Philly Modular flat kit (there are also some additions from other kits (like the loading...

I've always had a hankering to add a brass locomotive to my fleet. Before the age of injection molded plastics, most model railroading...

I subscribe to a pretty neat bulletin board dedicated to trains and model railroading called " BigBlueTrains.com ". The people on the...

We've been in the throws of continuous rainy days here in early April. Usually, I'd be outside for most of the evenings working on...

The completion of the area around the coal breaker means that 100% of the area between the tracks and the backdrop on Rainbows in the...

There is a branch line off of the LV mainline in the middle of the gorge at Penn Haven that has always been in my plans for my layout. ...

There are a few areas still left to address between backdrop and track. The first is the LVRR Maintenance facility on the north end of...

After recently ballasting my track and having finished a lot more of the track-to-backdrop scenery, I figured it was a good time to push...

I have two Bachmann SD45s - came with DCC encoders installed and they've been great performers for me since I bought them at least 10...

I model the rainbow years of Conrail - specifically the summer of 1976. If you know any of the history of this year, you'll know that...

I remember 1976. I turned 10 that year. The bicentennial was celebrated in a lot of ways, but I remember a certain pride in being part...

The Delaware and Hudson Railroad has had an interesting history, and things got a little squirrely for the little D&H in 1976. The D&H...

I've been running quite a few trains lately - just coincidence that Christmas is coming - in order to assess some of the clearances...

Having mostly finished up the section of White Haven between the backdrop and the tracks, it was time to tackle the back corner of my...

I'm sharing one of my kitbashing ideas with my friends at Clever Models. The pictures below are of my interstate bridge created from 2...

A couple of years ago I bought a GE U25B in Erie Lackawanna livery. It was a Stewart Hobbies model and I'd always had good luck with...