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Yesterday I found this old snapshot from the early 1990s as taken by my Dad in western North Carolina. That's Norfolk & Western 611 having just climbed Saluda Mountain and is headed for Asheville. My wife and I are aboard the train. This section of track is essentially out of service today...

I don't often treat myself to things, but I did so this week to get a pair of N Scale Jersey Central SD-35s before they're gone. I hope to begin construction of my new model railroad this winter.

One of the model trains recently given to me by my friend is this little N Scale jewel that's nearly 50 years old, an Arnold Rapido 0-6-0. When I was a kid, I had one just like it and as kids do, I hopelessly ruined it trying to paint it. It's not a valuable locomotive, but it won a place in...

CSX has recently changed up its local schedules and I now have a daylight train to watch in both directions! ;) I was so excited that I went out in the overcast to catch the train. I didn't care how the picture looked -- I was stoked to be trackside with any kind of light. It's just a short...

A generous friend sent me his N Scale to enjoy and that spurred me on to take a hard look at my "collection". I need to make some space, so am deciding what I want to keep and what I rarely run and need to sell or donate. It's been fun looking through everything and seeing how much N Scale has...

No shots of the prototype today, but a quick lousy-depth-of-field snapshot of a model instead. I was sorting through my N Scale and came across this old FEC boxcar, bought when I was a kid in about 1969 I figure. As kids do, for some reason I painted two spots on the door red. :confused: This...

Quiet afternoon in Asheville ….

A beautifully restored '46 Chevy pickup and a Mercury Montclair were also found.

Saw this li'l Nash Metropolitan at a show today and it's tiny 4-Cylinder motor. 0 to 60 time is about 30 Seconds it was said. :cool:

Taken yesterday, a Carolina Piedmont turn sets out from Laurens, SC and NS stacker No. 213 with some old skool piggybacks on the head end approaches Spartanburg, SC.

Taken from the kitchen window in western North Carolina. Not a good time to step outside ….. :eek:

Thanks Chuck. I hope your load lightens soon and that you're able to find some trains and cooler weather. I also found that RU Tower (to be correct, I should call it RU Cabin in C&O parlance) still stands in Russell, KY along with the depot. Neat stuff. And in Catlettsburg, KY stands BS...

A coaling tower still stands along the former L&N main in Chaska, TN and an L&N interlocking tower does likewise in Baxter, KY. A deluge arrived seconds after I clicked the tower shot.

Caught CSX No.1 leading a coal train in Catlettsburg, KY on Saturday. All just dumb luck, being trackside at the right place and time. No sun, but that's okay.

Also caught these shots yesterday while waiting. Here's train 192 arriving from Macon, GA: and a light engine move running west to pull an empty grain train:

After wasting a tank of gas and many hours fruitlessly searching for NS's Reading heritage unit this weekend, I finally hit paydirt today at Devine Jct. in Columbia, SC as she departed. I'd never seen the Reading unit before and I think it's one of NS's best. Railfanning is hard on equipment...

Caught stacker NS 211 (Croxton, NJ => Atlanta) at Crosswell, SC yesterday. The Engineer gave my wife and I a happy toot on the whistle. ;) That UP unit could use a serious bath.

Thanks guys. I use my router table as a poor man's jointer and after enough passes, I can make my Dad's old lumber good and straight. I made a test panel as seen below to experiment with LED brightness, testing various resistor values to create a level of illumination that isn't blinding and...

Not much visible progress yet. I'm still working on my control panel, messing around with LEDs and circuitry. It's been many decades since I've had the time to play around with electronics and I'm really enjoying the experimentation. The control panel case is all scrap oak from my late...

We must have all hung up our cameras for the balance of the summer. I seem to have little tolerance these days for sitting in the heat and watching creosote bubble from crossties waiting for something to happen. Did get a new hopper car for the model railroad. Nikon's 18-55mm kit lens does...