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 [...]
Reading about the A1 Tornado steam locomotive in England makes me long for the days of the Norfolk Southern steam excursion program in the U.S. I really miss scenes like this one of Norfolk & Western Class J number 611 from 1994, the last year of the NS steam operations program: My wife was surprised [...]
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
For Christmas, my wife gave me some switches and additional track for my n scale model train layout. The ability to switch trains around adds a lot of enjoyment over just operating a basic oval. Here, Chesapeake and Ohio J-3 614 (pulling the Chessie Safety Express) meets a Norfolk Southern steam excursion pulled by Norfolk [...]
While black and white television is almost obsolete these days, black and white photography has remained popular over the years. O. Winston Link was one of America’s premier photographers, famous for capturing the last days of steam railroading in stunning, nighttime images. In the 1950s, O. Winston Link spent five years traveling in Virginia, West [...]