Southern Pacific Cascade Line

Over the course of time and frequent operating sessions, one finds certain spots on a railroad that need extra attention.   While I strove t...

As we reemerge from our cocoons of the past couple of years, regular model railroad events are throttling back up.     OlyOps returned in mi...

With a heavy heart, I report the passing of another of my great railroader friends, Rick Kang.     Rick served as a Dispatcher for the South...

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...