Don Mitchell's Blog Index

Alco power on the SMR
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331172378

FM Power on the SMR (part 1)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331172923

FM Power on the SMR (part 2)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331172938

FM Power on the SMR (part 3)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331173363

FM Power on the SMR (part 4)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331173623

Industries
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174024

Industries (2)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174240

Industries (3)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174352

Industries (4)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174502

Industries (5)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174660

Industries (6)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331174852

Impressions, Illusions, & Illustrations
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331176254

Re: “I think that you could fit
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331177351

Impressions, Illusions, & Illustrations (2)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331179388

Impressions, Illusions, & Illustrations (3)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331180013

Impressions, Illusions, & Illustrations (4)
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331180446

The Design Journey
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331181472

Operations
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331195059

Tabs — Back to the Future
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331198873

Jobs — South Yard
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331200984

All shook up
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331211515

Track Cleaning
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331215785

“House” wiring
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331216523

Kadee uncoupling
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331219132

Lifting cars
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331219132

Turntable
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331224724

Tales of the SMR
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331224724

Backups
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331229494

Seed dispenser
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331231588

New passenger power
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331232156

“Short” Story
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331235372

Curves
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331237164

This and That …
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331238361

Gap cutter
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331241960

Game controllers for DCC
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331242176

Micro Mark track cleaner
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331242663

Resistance wheelsets
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331242663

resurrection
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331248332

Rattle Battle
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331252050

Close call
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331257844

Engine Prep
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331262111

Turnout and wheel standards
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331263257

Sidetracked
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331263593

Arcing at DCC (Low Voltages) — Not Really
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331263615

Heat Engines and “Sticktivity”
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331267410

The “new” FH H10-44 switcher
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331270088

Recent SMR op sessions have
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331273952

Electrical connections
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331274065

Notions…
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331274560

Sometimes life intevenes
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331274560

Getting ready
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331285113

Back in operation
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331287421

Let there be dirt
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331288793

A Tale of Two Alcos
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331291276

A tale of Three Bottles
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331294048

Hits and Misses
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331294327

Historical or Hysterical?
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331294327

Unturning turntable
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331298593

Weighty problems
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331299922

Flywheels vs. static weights
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331301896

Sound Advice
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331303878

Saved by the bottle
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331304158

Getting back to normal
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331309996

It was a thought … sigh
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331311188

Controls
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331315366

RFD
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331318085

Paint preservation
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331322324

Keeping occupied
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331323917

Proto Throttle effect
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331324625

Two steps back
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331325647

Re: Speed/Throttle settings
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331326314

Painting wheels
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331326562

Fixing split axles
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331326712

Box cab progress
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331329770

Stranger in town?
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331330124

Sight, Sound, and Age
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331332458

Cleaning NCE cabs
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331334186

Remote control of a different kind
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331337504

Axle/truck hack
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331338686

The history of the car in the photos
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331346849

Below decks
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331347286

Standoffs
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331349195

DCC Ammeter
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331349195

Rewiring continues
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331352109

This one really got me for
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331355293

Rewiring included new gaps
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331355293

Looking back
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331358991

Soldering
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331362727

S-P-R-O-N-G
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331364714

Before or after?
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331365674

Progress … and a look ahead
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331367471

Reflections
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331379704

To and from
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331384477

Staging rewired
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331384792

Model railroading has taken a
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331391418

Scenery work
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331393382

Summer Story
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331397590

Give it a lift
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331397888

Staples and cork
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331398113

Much of the scenery on the
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331399080

Mill Jct.
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/southern-mountain-railroad-12204294?pid=1331399080

Mock up
https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/mock-up-12219861