Tower Line Design Guidelines
Since I started my design journey. I have collected the "must have", "nice to have", and the "hell no" items. Since then, I have estblished this guideline for myself to…
CNW Power Roster
Each of my Locomotives will be customized to reflect CNW standard characteristics. To include the bell in the nose. This takes quite a bit of cutting, filing, and sanding. My…
CNW Tower Line Division
Why model the Cheap and Nothing Wasted? (CNW) The Tower Line Division (TLD) is a manifistation of my childhood and the CNW route from Omaha to Duluth via Sioux City,…
Log cabin for my layout
One of my winter projects is to build at least one more log cabin for the Old West portion of my layout. I scratch built one log cabin so far,…
My visit to Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM), Jackson Street Roundhouse
I happened to bump into a volunteer who runs the G Scale trains at the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM), Jackson Street Roundhouse, at a garden railroad open house this past…
I signed up to volunteer at TCMRM
I have a personal interest in supporting all of the local museum model railroad layouts, and will in time get around to spending time with all of them. But the…
Wayzata Depot Garden Railroad is Alive and Well
My wife Joy and myself made a little road trip to the other side of town one August weekend to visit the Wayzata Depot Garden Railroad. We had not been…