Prototype Railroad Topics

  I recently completed a Plate C Model Prototypes Pennsylvania Railroad G32 welded gondola.  I profiled my initial purchase here . The compl...

  This amazing model/scene is the work of Tore Hjellset who is not only an excellent modeler, but made the trek from Norway to attend! The m...

I attended this past weekend's Mid-Atlantic RPM in Linthicum, Maryland. For several days prior, I had been experiencing insanely debili...

  I was digging through an old hard drive and came across folders of photos from my earliest digital camera. Apparently I brought that camer...

I have always been a little underwhelmed by the draft gear available to HO scale modelers, be they the "boxes" on simple cars or t...

  Al Hoffman, left, with Lloyd Keyser at the recent St. Louis RPM, courtesy of Steve Hile Al Hoffman died recently at age 80. I met Al in th...

  Enosburg Falls, Vermont, September, 1941, Jack Delano, FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress I spent several days in Vermont over the pa...