Railfans are such shutterbugs, so no surprise that photo-sharing site Flickr has a huge number of groups dedicated to rail photography. Here’s an incomplete list of some of the groups I’m aware of: All Aboard! I Love Trains Railroad Bridges Railroads Railway Trains Trains and Trolleys Trains at Night It says something about human nature [...]
It says something about Blogger‘s ease of use that model railroaders are using it to build web sites for their layouts. A decade ago it would have been Geocities. It’s good to see: considering the length of time it takes to build a layout, the blog format — regular entries, chronologically arranged — is a [...]
Union Pacific #6832 (a GE AC4400CW — or, in UP lingo, a C44AC) leads a westbound empty coal train at Rochelle, Illinois, past two spare interlocking diamonds in the foreground. Tom Lampman‘s framing technique makes for an interesting photo.
For the past few years I’ve been looking for blogs about trains, with mixed success. Earlier this year I noticed that Mike Hamer, an Ottawa-based (and therefore nearby) model railroader who’s had his Boston & Maine-themed layout in Model Railroader publications a couple of times, had started a blog about his layout, replete with some [...]
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