I’ve fallen hard
for the TT model train scale, that is. In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I had given up on HO scale, because of the space requirement for running prototypically long trains. My attic just was not large enough. Running an HO scale ICE 4 just looked ridiculous. N scale seemed to be […]
’tis the season to be jolly…..or not!
Frankly I can not blame anybody for giving the “jolly feeling” a miss this year. It has been a rough 2020 here in DC and, of course, elsewhere. Personally I can not wait to see the back of this awful year. Between the pandemic and the sad Greek tragedy playing out in the White House, […]
“I’ve been working on the railroad…
…all the live-long day!” Well, not really. Most certainly I did not have it as bad as the railroad workers about whom the song was written around 1894. During those early days of American railroad construction, working conditions were not ideal, to say it mildly. It was backbreaking, all manual labor to lay down railroad […]