Five Rock Island GP35 locomotives pass over Battle Creek bridge near Dayton's Bluff, MN on Mike's Rock Island model railroad. I recently...

GNRR Locomotive #2000 rumbles past the vacant Tate Depot. Georgia Northeastern Railroad locomotive #2000 is one of the “newer”...

GNRR #6576 works Tate Yard sorting cars for the outbound Elizabeth Yard Turn Job. Everyone has a favorite prototype locomotive and one of...

The conductor has removed the derail, opened the facility gate, lined the switch for the industry, but he still has to wait for the Blue...

Stefan has chosen to model the "Old Line" prior to the Georgia Northeastern Railroad operating the line. In this era, Georgia Marble...

Prototype photos are an excellent tool to help modelers capture the appearance and details of the prototype we are modeling. It is easier...

I recently installed an operating grade crossing signal with gates on my layout. You can see the crossing signal in operation in my June...

During the past two weeks I had the opportunity to beta test the new ProtoThrottle from Iowa Scaled Engineering. The ProtoThrottle is a...

The May 2018 issue of Model Railroader magazine features an article I wrote on how to Build a Working Overhead Door. The article...

Operating sessions are when the Georgia Northeastern Model Railroad comes to life. All the hours of working on the layout pay off as...

Rail kinks can occur on the prototype as well as on our model railroads. As materials are heated or cooled they expand or contract at...

I wrote an article, How to model a modern lumber yard, which appears in the March 2018 issue of Model Railroader magazine. In the article...

A few days ago I was invited to my friend Tim Garland's house to film, edit, and produce an ops session video on his Seaboard Central...

This video highlights the recently completed Marble Hill area on my layout including the Imerys Corporation and Georgia Marble...

This month I finished up the Marble Hill area on my layout. The prototype Georgia Northeastern serves two unique industries in this...

Welcome to my new website. As I work on various projects I'll post updates and photos here in my blog. For the past month I have been...