My live steam club, Train Mountain is known for lots of ground breaking items.  For the current Operation Meet, they have added another.  A live view dispatch board.  Using the link below, watch tomorrow during west coast daylight hours (9-ish to 5-ish).  There are different colors for freight, passenger etc,.  The portion of Train Mountain that is displayed is but a small portion of the 2200 acre park, but it will show the number of trains running during the meet.  It will only be live tomorrow, Saturday the 28th but should be fun in any event.  Ru

A proposal to build a Pennsy T1 4-4-4-4 steam engine is in the process of gathering donations to build the 5550 T1.

  This would be the second engine built from scratch that I know of.

http://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/index.php

 The first was this one.

http://www.leviathan63.com/projectYork.html

And another in Britain.

http://www.a1steam.com/

Here are some shots of two related projects I am working on...a powered tool car, and an unpowered rail truck that it can push. More to come!

Hope this doesn't put you on the spot, Prof K. -- I'm curious as to the comparisons and contrasts between Australian bush logging and Pacific Coast logging. I thought that maybe the logging fans here, and that includes me, could learn a thing or two. Some of the equipment is similar, but I'm sure the challenges and lexicon are not.

Paul Schmidt