With the book in hand and shipping (thanks to everyone who ordered the book!) it's time to turn my attention back to the layout, and to ...

  It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks - after shipping the book off to the printer we thought it would deliver between the 16th and th...

  Wow, I see that I haven't posted anything here since November! Yikes! Well, hope anyone reading this had a wonderful Holiday season - ...

Here's the SNE "New Image" (post 1962) paint scheme as applied to first generation hood units.  This is two of several sets of...

  A real short update this time - it's summer so not a lot going on in the basement - but mostly because of a project that I thought wou...

Caboose 4012 at Montville, Conn.  (Photos from Bob's Photos, author's collection, unless otherwise noted).   From the early 1920s th...

 In case you wanted to justify adding one (or more) of the new Rapido Canadian National F- Ms to your CV layout - here's an assortment o...