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One of the basics of 'comprehending catenary' is to get an idea of what it looks like, something that just can't be done from simply looking at photos of cars and locos. All that I can get from studying photos whose stars are motive power are ideas concerning details, but not a clear idea of...

Chris (interurban) and I have been discussing catenary design on and off now for what? A year now, Chris? Seems like it, anyway. When it comes to catenary design, there is a complete lack of information for the modeler. This is not the same as trolley overhead. Catenary is used for heavy...

Anybody have an idea of what the 'Farewell' post is all about? :confused:

Model Railroad Warehouse has just posted a shot of the pre-production Baldwin Class B brass body kit and it looks great! Just ready for your own details and stuff to hang off of it. It's designed to use the Bachmann 70T diesel motor trucks. Here's the link: http://www.mrrwarehouse.com There's...

Just in for my collection....an unused North Shore Line blotter! :wave:

I stumbled across this photo on eBay. This is a shot of my hometown station in Hawthorne, NJ in the early '60s, just after the Erie & DL&W merged to form the Erie-Lackawanna. That Alco RS is still pretty clean and is pulling the usual string of Stillwell coaches. :wave:

This is the pair of Cannonball Car Shops switchers that I'm working on. They're based on the 1912 GE 40T prototype and I've made variations in the details so as to not look identical. Eventually, they'll get DCC decoders with reversing headlights and markers. Gettin' there! :wave:

I've been inventing my own railroad's car leasing programs and this is the latest. The first is a fleet of freight reefers with air and steam lines that can be cut anywhere into a through passenger night train. The cars are leased to Atlantic Produce Express (APEX) but APEX is owned by two...

Thanks to Chris for opening up this topic. The period from the late 1800s to the 1920s was the great 'Interurban Era' in the United States. Although there is a definite criteria to what constituted a trolley line and what constituted an interurban line, not all interurban lines were the same...

Well, Crew, here it is! After a lot of talk, I can finally roll out C109 fresh from the shops. :cool: Because of the height of the new post-war boxcars, the cupola was removed years ago. The crew likes it because of the smooth ride provided by the passenger trucks. Just a few more details to...

I bought a couple of LaBelle wood HO scale kits with the idea of making a pair of cabooses for my Hudson Electric RR. Traction roads had all kinds of cabooses and these side door Soo Line cabooses looked just right. Well, I didn't like the early period cupola, so I designed it right out and...

There were three stations in my hometown of Hawthorne NJ. Two belonged to the NYS&W. They were the passenger station on Diamond Bridge Avenue in the center of town and the freight station a mile or so up the line at the North Hawthorne shops. The other station was the Erie mainline station just...

Testing...testing...testing.

Hello, Crew! For those interested, I just added a page to the Museum on the Chicago freight tunnel system. Right now I have three cards posted, but this has got to be the most unique city trolley system ever built. :cool: Russ :) :) :)

The Hudson Electric herald that goes under my signature isn't showing up. How do I correct this? Thanks! Russ

Hello, Crew! One of my rituals is to sit in my car in the Home Depot parking lot on a Saturday morning, smoke a cigar, drink a BEEEEEG coffee, listen to the radio, and thumb through a RR photo book. As Chris (Interurban) would also point out, electric railroads had interesting cabooses. Many...

Hey Chris, Jet, & Crew! Any suggestions on traction magazines that I should consider subscribing to? I think that there's a few out there, I just don't know what they're like. Thanks! Russ

Hello, Crew! This is supposed to be a Soo Line HO scale La Belle wood caboose kit. Well....I just thought that the car sides looked a little, oh, un-traction like. Right, Chris? :eek: Now that I have the direction settled, what am I going to do with the outside braced NC&St. L outside braced...

This is an interesting 'dual-view' postcard from circa 1915 or so. It's postmarked, but there's no date. This must have been an interurban line that ran between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nice rataan flip-over seats. New to my collection.

This is the Erie caboose kit that I've been wrapped up with lately. Because the riveted and welded steel side versions of this crummy were only available in brass, I jumped on the opportunity to get one as a styrene kit. I still have a couple of parts to hang on and some touch-up to do, but it's...