I would like to give a big thank you to Mr. Ken Patterson, for his hospitality, opening up his home, for this past weekends St. Louis RPM Meet.   It was great to finally meet him, and see his beautiful HO layout, and superb models. It was very enjoyable to just kick back with the other visitors, and talk about model railroading, and the hobby in general.    This was my first RPM Meet, and I will be back next year for sure.

Sorry, re-ordering Running Extra magazines and the result is lots of entries on recent posts. Can't be helped, just keep on discussing things and they will fade into the back pages soon enough!

This was recently posted on one of the forum discussions, but I'm not sure I understand it.??

If you did not know, google search supports specifying the site name (in RR's case, "railroad-line.com") along with keywords and the search will only look at that site.  Using this approach on any of our favorite sites, like this one, MRR, etc. can help get you right to the relevant photos, tips, and techniques you are looking for.

The throaty bark of 7FDL’s and 251B’s in run-8 echoes off the walls of the old Borst & Burhans buckwheat flour mill in Cobleskill, N.Y. as Bicentennial-painted U23B 1776 leads a southbound D&H freight starting to gather momentum for the imminent climb up Richmondville Hill in October, 1975.

Happy July 4th!

HO models and photo by Dominic Bourgeois