Lincoln Pinn returns to the C&Sn3 with a report about his recent visit to Billings Montana. He describes the modeling of C&S coal and cinder cars being done in that fine town.

You can read about it here: http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/

Enjoy if you visit, Darel

First the good news. Right now I'm in the process of building helices at both ends of the staging yard for my N&W Pokey District layout. (I'll update you on the helix construction in a later post.) Since building a helix takes some time to do, while waiting for glue joints to dry, I managed to get the staging yard on the new layout completely wired.

I LOVE these new Bowser C430's with the sound, so being that none of the boys up here have any ALCO experience, I had to dip the hook in the water....Maybe if the Alaska Railroad had purchased 425's & 430's instead of EMD, Alco would have been in better shape.....this is what they may have looked like....

This might be an old document file.  (1996 give or take a few years).  From the http://www.GSMrr.org/ website. So would it be Freelancing to copy a railroad that has little to no information about it from route to motive power etc. or just make up a history to fill in the huge gaps left from no documentation to failure of the railroad to mergers etc.  Makes you wonder when you cross over from Prototype fidelity to Freelancing?

Next Up:

My layout (tentative name LT&SS) will feature geared steamers, so there needs to be a service area. That includes the water tank, of course and some sort of engine house. The pike is too small for much, so this single stall model from RSLaserkits is ideal.

Maybe this won't be the comedy the water tank was.

pqe

Spectacular footage Train plowing through deep snow at Arthurs Pass, British Columbia, Canada.

http://safeshare.tv/w/DYEsPODBwX

G. T.

Today's post over on the Thunder Mesa Mining Co. website is all about modeling saguaro cactus. Hope you'll click on over and check it out.

Dave

Further to coming at it from another direction, I finally got the benchwork/shelf completed for the South Main mine headframe area and figured I should mock up what the headframe might look like.  Using my favourite apple juice tetrapacks as the Ore and waste bin area and the container from a fine single malt scotch along with some diced tomato cans for the headframe I came up with the mock up in the pictures below.  Some extra foam chunks were used to rough in the steel lattice framing footprint on the headframe. 

REAL train songs. You can understand the words.

There are hundreds (maybe even thousands) of Train Songs available on the www by numerous artists.  In my estimation (and from my experience of having entertained in music for many years) there are rules for what qualifies as a genuine train song.

1) The song can be more credible if it includes the name of the train, rail line or event.