New Peninsula Added

I have added a peninsula to my model railroad, finally! Here's a video of the first train taking a test trip around.

Obviously a tremendous amount of work remains to be done.

Carnegie Science Center Model Railroad

This is a marketing video, but it shows the controls used to operate the Carnegie Science Center's model railroad. I saw that railroad back in 2000 or so when I was in Pittsburgh, but it was down for remodeling at the time.

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Moncton Model Railroad Show Video

Here's a little video I took with my Canon S3 of an N scale military train at the Moncton train show.


More to come...

Chasing Trains on the Island Central

Bob Boudreau put a nice video railfanning the Island Central on YouTube. Very nice.

Dartmouth Model Railroad Show

On Saturday November 17 I visited the Dartmouth model railroad show with my two youngest kids. I was pretty impressed with the displays - some really nice work there. The usual vendors were there and I walked away with a 3-pack of container cars and a signed copy of Jay Underwood's new book From Folly to Fortune: The Firing of James Richardson Forman. I look forward to reading it!

I put a bunch of photos in my gallery but here are a few for your enjoyment.









Here's a Lego train running around the layout. Note the display screen on the wall showing what the steam locomotive is seeing.


Kevin G took video of quite a bit of the show: