Southern Pacific Cascade Line

One of the major West Coast regional operating events is the biannual SoundRail event held in March in the Puget Sound region of Western Was...

  At the end of February, the Willamette Model Railroad Club held their annual swap meet in Portland.     Half of my regular operating crew ...

In the latter half of my February 7, operating session we suffered a derailment in Tunnel 10.     Tunnel 10 is the tunnel immediately RR-Eas...

As I work around the railroad bringing up the level of scenic detail, I arrived at the Eugene depot area.     This has long had a depot mode...

  SPH&TS TUCSON CONVENTION   I close out this year’s activities with a report on our trek to Tucson for the Southern Pacific Historical ...

Catching up with posts on what was a VERY busy Fall.     Almost every weekend in September and October had a rail-related event for me—eithe...

This year my major scenery development has been in the area of Monteith Rock (aka, “Rooster Rock”) and the adjoining “Pryor” area of forest....