Southern Pacific Cascade Line

In spite of good intentions and even fairly good execution, the design of my railroad inevitably produced a few difficult locations for trac...

Casting about for summer projects, I decided to tackle more trees for my forest.     I settled upon “furnace filter” speared onto trunks as ...

  THE RAILROAD AT YEAR TEN—A DECADE!   August 1 marks the anniversary of the start of construction for my SP Cascade Line.  It is now ten ye...

One of the challenges for an operating model railroad is to provide adequate facilities and layout equipage to perform the intended operatin...

For much of the life of my model railroad, my backdrop has used a simple, but effective treatment.     Beginning with a “banded” fade from s...

My railroad and crew are picking up from the disruptions of the past two years, gradually building back to regular operations.     Crew size...