Some backgound first: I’m a collector of vintage Model Railroading books. By “vintage”, I mean books published from the early/mid 1930’s to the hobby’s height of popularity in the mid/late 1950’s. That is not to say, I don’t collect “newer” MRR books than that since I also collect MRR books from the the 60s, 70’s, […]
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Modelrailroading video
Kind of a longish (30 mins) video, but well worth it, in terms of seeing what can be done with model railroading. The first minute or two of the video doesn’t really do it justice – need to be a bit patient with the videographer, until he actually zooms in on the details, for example, […]
Twin Cities Model Railroad Museum Closing?
TC MRR Museum closing article (open in new window) This is really unfortunate – I’ve been to this museum numerous times over the years, and actually took Lailah there last Christmas. I’m hoping they can find a way to stay there or find another place – but it would be a lot of work to […]
Internet down today: Model Railroading
Two more blog posts to do. Second to last – as previously noted, my internet was down from late Thursday thru Saturday afternoon. The technician comes around my place at 3:30, worked on the outside box for quite some time. Finally comes to the door, introduces himself as a Charter employee, and we talk about […]
MRR – Flea Market Event
As some of you know, one of my hobbies is Model Railroading. Over the yrs, I’ve accumulated some stuff (magazines, “locomotive equipment”, etc.), that are either duplicates or no longer wanted – there was a time where I would put this unwanted stuff on eBay, but haven’t done that in the recent few years. About […]
