My wife and were fortunate to be able to spend 10 day in Budapest Hungry, Vienna and Salzburg Austria. While trains were not a focus of the trip we did travel by train between each city and used local transit with in each city. The line we
My wife and were fortunate to be able to spend 10 day in Budapest Hungry, Vienna and Salzburg Austria. While trains were not a focus of the trip we did travel by train between each city and used local transit with in each city. The line we
Sorry for the long gap since my last post. I have been doing some modeling, but I have not posted about it. I am finishing up some projects for a presentation I will be doing at eh New England Prototype Meet in Springfield, MA May 29 and 30…
Sorry for the long gap since my last post. I have been doing some modeling, but I have not posted about it. I am finishing up some projects for a presentation I will be doing at eh New England Prototype Meet in Springfield, MA May 29 and 30…
We just dropped our third episode of the Frugal Model Railroaders, check us out where ever you get your podcasts! Trying to model an era that is nearly 70 years ago can be difficult at times. I posted several photos over the last week and h…
Trying to model an era that is nearly 70 years ago can be difficult at times. I posted several photos over the last week and have figured out they are not all helpful. In the photo below is a fire that wiped out the original grain and feed
Now that I have torn out all of Norwich, I need to start building Plainfield. One note is I plan on having three staging tracks on the back of the benchwork to serve as the northern end staging. The staging will be hidden by a short (around…
My friend Brian Johnson and myself have decide to produce a podcast, the Frugal Model Railroaders. So far we have dropped two episodes with a goal of one per month. The website is: The Frugal Model Railroaders where we will post when we dro…
After placing my order 4 years ago, Rapido has finally delivered the H16-44 units. These units truly were worth the wait, the look good, sound great and run well. I purchased 3 units, two with DCC and sound and one straight DC. I have since…
Sorry for the long absence. I have been busy with lots of things, including trains. I have laid most of the track for the Worcester Yard and engine facility. I still need to do the caboose and industrial tracks. I also need to clean out mor…
I have moved back to working on the engine house as I wait for turnouts to be delivered. I am using the Walthers Rolling Mill as the base for the structure, but I needed to get some widows to match the ones in the real engine house. I found…
In 1953 the New Haven Railroad constructed a new diesel engine house, while eliminating the roundhouse and turntable in Worchester. Because the NH and the Boston and Maine shared the engine facility, the NH loaned the B&M RS-3's to cover so…