Musings on my Model Railroading Addiction

Time flies when you are having fun. Its been an up and down eight years, but my good friend Trevor Marshall messaged me today reminding me that eight years ago him, Ryan Mendell and Doug Currie braved the wilds of Etobicoke and built...

Puttering through the cornfields. It’s Ontario Corn Season, and a throwback to a visit to the Waterloo Central a couple of years ago with their Heritage Hopper train passing through the cornfields north of St. Jacobs.

Ontario Steam in 2026! On our way up to a cottage rental outside of Huntsville a couple of weeks ago, we visited the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway at the Muskoka Heritage Place in Huntsville. I had been once before in 2023 when I spent a whole day “chasin...

Wow, here we are at the turn of the summer, Civic Holiday Monday in most of Canada. Its not quite the midpoint of meteorological summer, but it is for the traditional summer school holiday for the children out there between the end of June and Labour Day. As I type this, I am getting into month 3 of not really working on the layout, or any hobby project. I had a big spurt int...

It doesn’t feel like its been a year, but a year ago on Monday next week I was in Derby for “The Greatest Gathering” at Alstom’s works celebrating 200 years of the modern railway. Tod...