Ramblings about model-building, model railroading… railfanning… and life
On the Ski Train
Pictures Rediscovered After Decades Ever have one of those times that you completely forget you have something? Back at the end of the last century
Of Wishful Physics
Where Operations and Layout Limitations Meet My 1:87 model railroad resembles a camel. There’s an old aphorism that a camel is a horse designed by
Anonymous Action
Unidentified Units from the Rio Grande Days Not everything can be known. That’s just the way it is. Knowing that fact doesn’t make it any
Specialty Cars for the Rio Grande Zephyr
Three unusual cars to fill out an HO scale RGZ On my model railroad, a key feature of the 1970-1983 era is the Rio Grande
F9 Finale
The Last Runs of Rio Grande’s Fabled F9 Trio on the Ski Train Many railfans know of the D&RGW F9 set, the last three “covered
Coal Creek at Dusk
One cool summer evening in July 1986 we went train-hunting at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon, south of Boulder. At this time the Rio
Action Road 