If you've been paying attention to my blog entry on the town of White Haven you know I've said on several occasions that I need to have...

As a kid, we built things. It runs in the family I suppose. My dad and all of his brothers were either part or full time carpenters. ...

This is a short parallel to the "White Haven is taking shape" blog post. If you've been reading that one, you know I'm working on the...

I was running trains this weekend - specifically my partially weathered coal drag to see how some of my weathered coal hoppers looked. ...

I've been waiting for some flower clumps to arrive - not for my wife's Valentines Day gift, but for houses around the town of White...

I'd been looking to add a feature to White Haven mimicking one of the automotive maintenance shops in town. (This all started when I...

I-80 was started in 1956 as a major East/West route across the United States. Completion of the Interstate Highway system was coincident...

Building the town of White Haven is a pretty complicated project - I wanted to capture the flavor of the place without resorting to exact...

If you've been paying attention at all, I've said that the town of White Haven goes back from the tracks for about 7 blocks up to the top...

Very few of the kits we buy for model railroading buildings have walkout basement provisions like you see when buildings are built into...

If you've read my section on my locomotive roster, you know of my deep affinity for Alco diesels, especially the Century series, and...

For most of the route through the Lehigh Valley Gorge, the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the New Jersey Central RR ran on opposite sides of...

I know I'm not alone. My employer sent me home for at least two weeks that started on Tuesday, laptop in hand, doing some training from...

I started talking about building the town of White Haven from the track into the background hills in my "Current Projects" page. I...

The last couple of days have been great. I've been working on some of the layout history (it's own page) on this site. Makes you take a...

I bought a Bachmann Spectrum Series GP-30 a few years ago from ebay. I don't think I spent more that $15. It was a B&O like the one...