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Another November 11th has arrived, marking the armistice between the Allied Forces and Germany, ending what was then called "The Great War" and later, the First World War. It was also refered to as "The War To End All Wars" due to its length, scope, ferocity and sheer brutality and yet, history...

As if the Esquimalt and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island has not had enough problems:( A short southbound freight is beleved to be the cause of a number of brushfires between Jayem (MP 84.4) and Wellington (MP 77.3) on the afternoon of April 5th. One fire started close to the bridge next to Green...

I was digging through my piles of railway shots a few days ago and I came across this one, taken during the summer of 1983. At the time, rebuilt geeps were not that common, so I pulled over to get a shot of #8518 working on a ballast train beside the south end of Kootenay Lake at Sirdar and...

The Okanagan Mountain Park fire flaired up again yesterday, and moved east from Belleview Creek into the Myra Canyon. The fire, currently standing at 23,000 hectares tore through the southern suberbs of Kelowna B.C. 12 days ago, destroying 238 homes and has started to claim the historic Kettle...

A couple of years ago, I was talked into building a corner module for a member of our Victoria oNeTrak club, Later, I decided to build an offset module to match the club honcho's module and decided to match my module (Carpenter Creek) with Dave's (Stark's Bend) Corner for a continuous scene...

Canadian Pacific's first roadswitchers from General Moters were 17 GP7's roadswitchers aquired in 2 batches in 1952 and 1953 Of these, 3 were traded in for rebuild to GP35 and one was wrecked. Starting in 1980, CP started a program of rebuilding and remanufacturing their remaining 12 GP7's...

I decided to stop in Nanaimo while passing through in early Febuary of 1984 to check out Welcox Yard. 5 GP9's were sitting at the service track while a 6th unit #8830 was hooking up to the idler flats which had been used to switch the rail barge earlier that day to take them to a storage track...

Here are a few pis of an N Scale wood trestle I built a few years ago. The bridge measures a scale 405ft in length and 164ft in height and, while it follows no specific prototype, it is built to Canadian Pacific standard plans and is based loosely on the crossing at Bridal Veil Falls (now known...

Here is an interesting detail for the prototypicly minded modelers among us. The picture shows a fishplate, which is used to join two peices of rail together. Note that this one is specially designed to join two different sizes of rail together, in this case, a length of 85 pound rail to a...

On November 11th, 1918, at 11:00 AM (The 11th Hour, of The 11th Day of The 11th Month), an armistice was signed between Germany and the allied forces of France, Great Britain (and it's commonwealth nations Including Australia, Canada and New Zealand, among others) and the United States, as well...

Just checked out N Scale Supply, (www.nscalesupply.com) and noticed that Kato is re-releasing the SD40 (not the dash 2) in the following roadnames: -Algoma Central -Conrail -ATSF -Union Pacific -CP Rail -Undec A check of Kato's Website doesn't have them listed yet. Terry

We received our shipment of the new C424's yesterday and I have picked up my first two of them. They are modeled after an early phase of possibly a U.S. style with the "eyebrow" style numberboard on the rear of the unit. Sadly, The Canadian Pacific, which I model, had only one of that style:(...

For those of you modeling the Canadian Pacific from the 1920's up to the mid 1980's era, Kaslo Shops has just released an N Scale Caboose (Van up here in Canada) kit in 5 styles: -NK-10: 35' 6" Low Cupola, Tongue & Groove Siding, Rd # 435018-436979 -NK-11: 35' 6" High Cupola, Tongue & Groove...