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Category Archives: usa
Requiem For Steam
A year or so back I took a look at Essential Witness and Transition by Jim Shaughnessy and Colin Gifford respectively. This week our ever genial postie tapped on the door and left this gem, Requiem For Steam. If you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in america, americana, Art, b&w, Bachmann, black and white, blog, book review, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, dapol, finescale, Hattons, heljan, history, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, journey, Kalmbach, Layout, library, life, man cave, mancave, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, monochrome, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Photography, Rapido Trains, realism, reference, research, review, travel, Uncategorized, Union Pacific, usa
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Motivation Monday Southern Alberta Rail
As many friends and quite a few readers know I have a thing going on ref North American and Canadian short lines. I’ve primarily worked in HO (see above), but not long ago Chris Mears of Prince Street turned my … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, america, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, free-mo, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iain rice, Ian Futers, Inspiration, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, skill, southern alberta rail, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, usa
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VE Day
Written in 1944 by John Edmonds, the following epitaph seems particularly appropriate in these times. When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
Posted in 2020, america, australia, aviation, blog, bomber command, canada, east kirkby, epitaph, europe, Friends, great britain, hero, history, Inspiration, iphoneography, john edmonds, john maxwell edmonds, just jane, Lancaster, life, new zealand, news, nx611, Old school, pilot, poem, remember, remembrance, Uncategorized, united kingdom, usa, ve day, victory europe, world war two, ww2
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Essential Witness and Transition
Essential Witness and Transition are two books that do that rare thing of capturing the railway in an engaging and artistic way. Each book contains the work of one photographer, Jim Shaughnessy for Essential Witness, and Colin Gifford for Transition. … Continue reading
Posted in b&w, black and white, blog, blogging, book, book review, Branch Line, British Rail, canada, copyright, history, hobbies, Inspiration, Layout, library, life, man cave, mancave, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, monochrome, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Photography, product news, railway, research, review, scale, scale modelling, seasons, skill, skillset, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, travel, Uncategorized, usa
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NMRA Motivation Monday
Bob Phelps receives the NMRA’s distinguished service award Saturday 13th July 2019 from NMRA President Pete Magoun, at the NMRA National Train Show in Utah. So why’s this of interest? Bob, principal product design engineer worked for Peco for 54, … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, Award, blogging, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, Friends, history, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Layout, life, magazine, man cave, mancave, media, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, news, nmra, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, product news, Railway Modeller, research, scale, scale modelling, toy fair, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized, usa
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Throwback Thursday (Space Connections Part 1)
This hobby covers a good spectrum of social aspects, most modellers I know aren’t club members but either work alone or in small groups. ‘Space’ in the UK is often at a premium and frequently costly, so it’s no surprise … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, Forest of Dean, fremo, fremo module, Friends, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Rapido Trains, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, usa, Welsh Marches, Western Region
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Warley 2018 Rapido images
Firstly apologies for lack of narrative with this post, getting a few minutes around the show to grab images is challenging at times! Still here’s the Canuck stuff, and it looks to Rapido’s high standard The Tempo, I have no … Continue reading
Posted in blog, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, gmd-1, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, new release, news, O Gauge, o scale, Ontario, OO, product news, Rapido Trains, research, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, True North, Uncategorized, usa
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Wordless Wednesday (Laramie)
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, canadian national, canadian pacific, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, Kalmbach, laramie, Layout, life, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Railex, Rapido Trains, research, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Union Pacific, usa, wordless wednesday, Wyoming
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Wordless Wednesday 4th July, Faded & F…..!
Posted in 4th july, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, finescale, HO, hobbies, Hornby, iain rice, independance day, iphoneography, Kalmbach, Layout, life, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, True North, Uncategorized, usa, wordless wednesday
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