Train Tuesdays Here’s a link to Norfolk Southern’s interactive holiday card. See Also: Why Kids Should Play with Model Trains Santa Trains While NS’s holiday card is nice, you have to really appreciate the railroads that run holiday trains. Canadian Pacific, BNSF, Kansas City Southern, and CSX ran holiday specials. Here’s a video of the [...]
Video Game Addiction These days, some kids spend hours playing addictive modern video games sometimes getting painful lumps. Old-Fashioned Family Entertainment Alternative There is an Ohio manufacturer of wooden cornhole games. Woodgamz.com explains: Cornhole, bean bag toss or whatever you want to call it, is more fun, it can be played almost anywhere, it doesn’t [...]
The rainy weekend gave me a chance to work on my Southern / Norfolk and Western / Norfolk Southern model railroad steam excursion fleet. Older and cheaper n scale equipment is equipped with Rapido couplers, which are not as realistic and cannot be uncoupled with magnets. I swapped out the old Rapido couplers with more [...]
Last week I was lamenting the end of the Norfolk Southern steam excursion program. Until the day NS restarts the program, I will be left to my n-scale model railroad. Here’s a shot of Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 Class J 611 and Southern 2-8-0 #722. In addition to N scale, the N&W J class #611 [...]
Here’s another picture of former C&O 614 and N&W 611 from my tabletop n scale model railroad. See Also: The World’s Greatest Hobby (or Why Kids Should Play with Model Trains) Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); [...]