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Here's another great period British film - this one from 1963; it depicts the recovery of British Railways from a heavy snowstorm. The...

Here's a unique little find - "The Night Mail," a famous British documentary from 1936 that followed the passage of the "...

Here ! No doubt about it - looks like it's all post-WWII, with the majority of the footage of the ex-Army 2-6-0s. But plenty of footag...

So here it is: not a bad little engine, really. I did decide to leave the handrails in their raw brass form (and substituted brass wire to g...

....is not generally something I care much about. I'm moved mostly by the things I see in museums, not Silverliners. And yet.....when ...

....I have the site for you .

The Colorado Railroad Museum has released its much-awaited (by me, at least) Rail Annual, " Age of the Decapods ." This book, whic...

And here it is - with the toughest part done (the tender is still a substitute, but that will change as soon as I get the body shell weather...

The whole issue of plausibility, and its tenuous relationship with reality, informs a lot of modeling. The problem of getting the 4-4-2 that...

So in true model railroad fashion, it's off one project, and on to the next before the first one's wholly finished. My next project ...