Southern Pacific Cascade Line

  At the beginning of June, we held the 2025 edition of our regional operating event, WOOPS (Western Oregon OPerationS).     This was a thre...

  I have spent much of this year developing the scene and forest around “Pryor.”     Pryor actually is a siding (unmodeled on my railroad) b...

Over the past couple of months, I have attacked a long-deferred modeling task: weathering the boxcar fleet.     In the rush to get the railr...

Once I completed the rock surface encasing Montieth Rock, I still needed to provide color.     Two previous posts describe my rock surface m...

Kicking off what was a very busy railroad month of March was my regular monthly operating session on the first of the month.     The session...

Following up on my previous post on sculpting Montieth Rock (aka, “Rooster Rock”), I got fresh information thanks to that first blog post.  ...

Montieth Rock is a volcanic plug rock formation in the canyon leading up from Oakridge to McCredie Springs.     Also known as “Rooster Rock,...