Southern Pacific Cascade Line

August 1 st   marks the anniversary of the start of construction of my railroad.     I usually do a photo survey of the railroad to mark tha...

Changing operating era and equipment back from 1984 into the 1950s naturally required removal of all of the more modern era equipment that h...

One of the most critical locomotive types on an operating model railroad is switchers.     When I began my quest to backdate my operations t...

As I developed my 1950s locomotive fleet, I concentrated first on the road freight power.     My study of SP locomotive assignments in the 1...

The time has come for me to shift the operating era of my SP Cascade Line back into the 1950s.  Such an era shift was always part of my plan...

It seems a bit hard to believe, but I am closing in on hosting a hundred operating sessions on my railroad.     As I do so, the itch to chan...