I've updated my blog again - with lots more photos of the tunnel work I'm doing.  It's kinda hard to make tunnels look realistic, so I'm attempting some new ideas, and also focusing on visual separation and tricks, and on building believable terrain shapes around the tunnels.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/03/tunneling-update.html

- Steven Haworth
RGS history - http://www.rgsrr.info/

I've finally reached the point of needing to build tunnels - the blog entry below shows my portal-painting attempts and roughed in scenery.  It's been a load of fun, and yet another new skill to work on.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-time-for-tunnels.html

I've completed some of the rock work in the canyon I started some weeks back, and now have some photos posted in the blog:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/01/more-rock-work-on-narrow-canyon.html

For those of you interested, more photos and details about the restoration of Rio Grande Southern #20 have been posted:

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,233668

Well, not much of a posting today, but I have been quietly working in the background - updating several THOUSAND (and yes, you read that correctly, folks) photo links from the Denver Public Library's (DPL) Western History Collection.

All of these updates are part of my main site - http://www.rgsrr.info - where I have links to locations, equipment, and historical events.

Here's another blog post... continuing my ideas on painting track and ballasting (resolved now, I hope!), and working thru the visual design for some trackwork twisting through a deep canyon.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/09/most-ballasting-and-roughing-in-canyon...

Another blog post - with some photos of my search for the perfect RGS trackwork look:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/08/blog-post.html

I've updated my blog again - this time discussing the return of the cosmetically restored RGS #74 to display, after a failed operational effort and a long, slow re-assembly.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/05/rgs-74-is-back.html

Anybody interested in some amazing photos of the innards of Rio Grande Southern #20 - a 4-6-0 undergoing a very extensive rebuild?  There's photos here of the frame, firebox, bolsters... even the inside of the rebuilt tender:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/04/rgs-20-rebuild-continues-w-photos.html

Another blog post - this detailing my weekend's efforts in updating a brass steamer to DCC and adding my first 603 LED in the headlight.  And, some discoveries in Mancos CO.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/03/tiny-leds-back-to-workbench.html