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4 July 2010

Seems as though my track planning work has taken off like wildfire—I've been making plans left, right and center. At some point the collection will likely explode with scads of new plans, but for now here's a first-timer door plan.

10 June 2010

My services as a track planner have been called upon again, and so there's a new plan in the collection: the Arkansas Midland Railroad.

25 April 2010

It's the return of Frankenshay! After nearly two years of sporadic restoration work, I've finally brought No. 6 back to its original unfinished glory! Yes, here's a most unusual N scale beast: a Shay built in the mid-1970s. It's sat in pieces in a drawer for the last decade or so. But rather than toss it, I decided to restore it to the condition in which it was last run, which was sometime in the 80s when I'd upgraded the wheels with the intention of finishing it. Though it remains unfinished, it nevertheless remains of interest, so I created a detailed account of its construction. Please enjoy this three-part series.

4 April 2010

Shay lovers, take note! I've added a new video to my railfan video collection. See some great footage of Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Shay #15 in action.

3 April 2010

Following on the heels of the Online Resources revamp, I've added a new page of Handy Gadgets. This is the beginnings of a collection of helpful tools, including a scale dimension calculator, a scale drawing size converter, and a resistor decoder.

1 April 2010

At long, long last I've finally gotten around to wrapping up a very big, very old round tuit. I've consolidated and updated all of my Online Resources (a.k.a. links). Ten pages of them, not counting resources devoted to other scales, which are located at their respective websites. Now, all of my other modeling sites point here so I'm not maintaining duplicate lists.

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28 February 2010

In the process of researching the Pine Creek Railroad, I've been catching up with my links lists. The problem is that I've got clusters of them scattered across multiple sites, so while I'm still actively building the lists, I'm struggling with how to consolidate them. In other (entirely trivial) news, I've updated some of the site's graphics.

12 January 2010

It may not N scale, but it is my next modeling project: the Pine Creek Railroad in Z scale. 36-inch narrow gauge (plus some dual-gauge thrown in for good measure) should be quite a challenge at 1:220...

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