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The Belle won't be keeping her #4 numberplate once she hits the shops, she'll be wearing #24 on the Whiskey River Railway.

Doc, The truck has about 250hp (my rough guess, a stock 360 had 220hp plus the addition of an Edelbrock Performer intake, supposedly a mild RV cam and an Edelbrock 600cfm carb... but then add 42 years/51,000 miles of wear) and the Centennial behind it has 6600hp. Not sure if it had any upgrades...

Gents, Last month while working in the Green River, WY yard I had some downtime and made my way over to a train show they were having in Evanston, WY. I managed to pick up a few oldies, one both myself and Bill have been wanting for a long time. First up is this Triang LNER Coronation. It does...

Bill, If you were me, how'd you make the numberboards? Naturally the headlight will have a light in it, I'm thinking a golden white LED to not give off heat. Also it would need a lens for the headlight, again suggestions are welcome.

Dr. Tom, While Union Pacific wasn't exactly my first choice I'm still glad I took the job here. Being the history buff as well as train knob I am this fit both categories quite well. The transcontinental railroad was huge, and being that I hired out where they had the toughest time figuring out...

Gents, Looks like I'm back almost a year later. Talk about big changes that have all happened within the year. After eight years of duty to my country I'm out of the Army now. I landed my dream career with Union Pacific as a conductor up in Cheyenne, WY. My normal route is from Cheyenne, over...

Bill, When you get around to it, try to snap some pictures of it. I'd like to see how it turned out. The W.R.Ry. only has a pair of express reefers so the odds of them leaving home rails would be unlikely. I only have those because of the fact that the Army camp needs fresh produce delivered...

This is nuts and I love it!

Holy cow, that's a major change from the last time I was there! It does look very well done. Like it has been for the last couple years now, the Whiskey River Railway has had a lot of progress on it's rolling stock but zilch as far as anything to operate on. Since I'll be leaving the Army here...

Gents, Thanks for the warm welcome back. It'll be nice to post here again and get feedback from my rail buddies from Tennessee as well as Zathros and others that I've yet to meet face to face. Bill, as your requested... That's the whole project I've been working on for the last almost three...

It has been a hot minute since I've posted here! Since then, I have almost totally finished my daughter's train set I've been prodding at for the last two years (almost three!), separated the shorty caboose from WRRy Heisler #10 (Dr. Tom's old lokie) and am working on adding eight wheel pickup...

Gents, I have been keeping busy over here doing odd jobs and making random things. One of those random things is a pair of gondola loads for the WRRy gons that I purchased before coming to Korea. One of the goals on the WRRy is to make every visible load removable. Using what I had available...

Happy New Year to everyone! It's been about two months since I've last posted on here, so time to catch up a little. Before I came home before Christmas not much was accomplished, with minor work being done on the Bachmann Trackster van that Bob from the Clarksville MRC gave to me. The front...

Ahh ok, glad that was clarified.

Bill, Out of all the options, I'd have to go with a display piece outside of a VFW. From my quick research the VFW was started in the early 1900's to support soldiers returning from the Spanish-American war and the Philippine Insurrection so it'd be in place during a WW2 setting, such as the...

Wow, it looks so empty up there. Good to see progress though and hopefully when I get back they're be trains rolling. Before I leave for Texas I'll have enough time to stop in at the club and maybe out there to see all the progress in person. Keep up the awesome work!

Gents, Bill, the pic below is how I was thinking of having the plan laid out. I can't remember if I gave you a small enough motor to jam in there or not, but by having the motor in the locomotive this way it does three things: 1. Keeps the loco aesthetically pleasing to the eye by not having a...

Seoul Exploration and other ramblings Gents, I apologize for my absence, my supervisor left me in charge of the motor pool for a month so I've been running around like John Bobbit trying to find his prized possession. This last weekend has been kind to me, while most Army folk get a four day...

Gents, I was able to get out of Pan Mun Jom, Korea for this extended weekend to venture into Seoul to visit a old Korean Army buddy of mine from the first time I was here. Since the fastest and cheapest way to travel most places on this peninsula is by rail I snapped some pics from my travels.

I've stopped holding my breath for these to be available as they've been saying they'll be available soon. And I wouldn't buy just one, I'd buy two. I have five (seven technically, two will be donated to the Clarksville MRR Club when I finish them) and only one of them works. One has the Ernst...