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Benchwork
How to build model railroad benchwork that works.
Canadian Model Trains
A visit to Osborn Model Kits.
Christmas
My train underneath the Christmas tree
Christmas gifts for model railroaders
Clinics
NMRA Clinics from X2011, Sacramento National Convention
Computers
Mini-Review of Trainz software
Electrical
General tips and techniques
Learning about DCC
Locomotive Maintenance Tips
DCC turnout frog wiring
Sound install in an Athearn diesel
Remotoring an Athearn switcher
Sound install in an Atlas RS3
LED turnout indicators for DCC layouts
Signal circuits and detection
Track occupancy with CTs
automatic signal circuit by Roger Race
Wiring tips about wire markers
Brass engine decoder installation
Sound decoder installations
PowerPax Programming Booster Review
Soundtraxx decoder installation in an HO Kato RS-2
Scratchbuilding a brass signal bridge
Electronic speed control for all scales
Installing a decoder in a Mantua 2-6-0
G-Scale
My experience with G-scale
Brian Swanton's Kettle Valley Railway
Hockley Valley Railroad video clips
General and Adminstration
Intent of my website
Things to think about before you begin building
Glossary with brief explanation of terms used by model railroaders
Overview of track gauge and model railroad scales
My Utopia Northern freelanced HO layout
How to contact me by email
Privacy policy for my site
Miscellaneous
Other stuff
How I built my website
Modular Railroading
Overview and our Nottawasaga Model Railway Club
Experience building free-mo modules
Rolling stock carrying cases
Operations
Ideas for operating a model railroad
Using scale time
Ways to set up operations
Operations with Micro-Mark's car cards
Using the Ship-It software program
Staging addition to my Utopia Northern
Timetable operations
CN block & interlocking signal indications
Painting
Ideas to improve painting models
Using an airbrush
Weathering tips and techniques
Weathering with PanPastel® Colors
Tips and Techniques from NFR Woodstock Turn 2009
Photography
Overview of my train photo pages
CPR, Alliston, Ontario
CNR's historic Craigleith depot
HCW Canadian steam train excursion
CP-Rail Christmas train stops near Barrie, Ontario
Revelstoke Museum and Archives
CPRail freight westbound through Toronto, Easter Sunday, 2009
NMRA-NER '07, Albany, NY
CARM '08, Holland Centre
Live steam with video, Lion's Head, Ontario
NMRA National '03, Ontario
CARM '08, Hamilton, Ontario
NMRA-NFR '08, Ottawa, Ontario
Gord Baverstock's HO railroad, Owen Sound, Ontario
Narrow gauge meet, '07, Schomberg, Ontario, Ontario
Access to a BBC video clip of a prototype scratchbuilt locomotive
Elgin County Railway Museum, Ontario
CARM '07, Palmerston, Ontario
Suncoast Model Railroad Club, Florida
Tobique Valley Railway (TVR) Flood and Abandonment
Barrie Train Show, 2009
CARM Copetown Train Show, 2009
Scarborough Model Railroaders Open House, February, 2009
Ontario Southland Railway GP7 Train Driving Lesson
Saturday layout tour at NFR Woodstock Turn 2009
Ontario Western layout at NFR Woodstock Turn 2009
Sunday layout tour & Train Show at NFR Woodstock Turn 2009
Midland, Ontario Train Show, 2009
Bracebridge, Ontario Train Show, 2009
CARM Fond du Lac operating session, August 2009
Muskoka Layout Tour, October 2009
Bill Bradford's Allandale Yard layout
Vintage CN & CP film footage from the '60s
Track damage from flood in Australia
Al Crisp's operations session (train 431/432)
Midland 2011 Train Show video
Richmond Hill Live Steamers video #1
Richmond Hill Live Steamers video #2
South Simcoe Railway Excursion
Muskoka Tour 2011 videos
My Utopia Northern Railroad
Model train photography tips
Planning
Estimating the cost of building a model railroad
Prototype
Personal experience on a high-speed Eurostar train
Jason Jongen's photos of Canadian and other railroads
track spikes and track laying on railroads
CPR historic station at Labelle, Quebec
Barrie-Collingwood (BCRY) Last Run video
Rolling Stock
Some basic ideas and information
Tips and techniques
Installing and using Kadee couplers
Weighting cars to track better
Locomotive weight and pulling power
Marker lamps lighting tips
Scenery
Follow me as I build a craftsmen CPR passenger station
Building Campbell Scale Models King's Cannery with wood, cardstock and corrugated aluminum
Review of the Barrel Factory laser building kit by Full Steam Ahead
Assembling a cardstock building kit from 3DK.
DPM building flats to disguise a pillar.
Methods for modeling roads and streets
Turning a mistake into a mini-scene
Ideas for making effective backdrops
Mountain range backdrop painting
Air fern pine trees
Woodland Scenics metal trunk pine trees
Shaping terrain tips
Ideas for making trees
Hiding top-mounted switch machines
Chainlink fence scenic divider
Buiding logging camp skid shacks
Adding a waterfall and mountain scenery
Making sedum trees
Furnace filter trees
SceniKing backdrop scenery
How to make roads with the Woodland Scenics road kit
How to kitbash a Woodland Scenics scene kit
Fake fur grass
Suspended Layout
A suspended HO layout solves a space problem.
Tools
Tools to make life easier
Tool tips and techniques
Storage ideas
Sinbad acc glue review
Trackwork
Model railroad track overview
How to ballast track
Using Fast Track jigs and templates
My experience handlaying with Fast Track templates
Inexpensive manual turnout control
Tools to help make better trackwork
Homasote roadbed pros and cons
Track cleaning methods
Trainfest
Trainfest 2010 overview
Trainfest 2010 videos
Trainfest 2010 photos
Trainfest 2011 videos and photos
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