Thursday Night Round Robin

A group of model railroaders in the Capital Region of New York

9/23/2010

Summer 2010 Is Over...

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T he sights and sounds of Summer 2010 are gone, here's a sample of what you missed. From Dean a CP Inspection train crosses the Mohawk ...
9/03/2010

Rising Star

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A s long as I can remember there's been discussion about the well being of the hobby of model railroading. The anxiety of "Are we g...

D&H OCS

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L ast week CP ran an OCS over the D&H, Paying visits to Binghamton, Albany and Rouses Point. CP’s VP and COO along with other officials ...

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W hile waiting for the D&H/CP Rail to produce the encore performance to train 666s appearance here at West Chazy, it became apparent I h...
8/19/2010

Caboose At King's

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  Post Star Article August 12, 2010 on the King's Caboose Thanks, Tony Bucca

Wayne Sittner CR (exLV) cabooses

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A bout a year ago I got back into a Conrail state of mind (for a while) and ended up doing a group of different classes of cabooses. These i...

North Stratford Keeper

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W e are at the east end of the renovated North Stratford station tonight, as SLR 394 comes down off Bloomfield Hill into the curve near the...
8/02/2010

Final Chapter MOW

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A s most of you know I went right from the 1953 L&WV 401 freight motor to this 1983 MOW kick. Aged 30 years in the blink of an eye....

XO Tower 1984

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T he photographer/railfan figure I modeled to represent myself, the Porsche 356 was one of my early railfan cars, the "boy on a bike...

Cobleskill Coal and Uncle Pete

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H ope everybody is enjoying the heat this week. God do we need rain. Every creek is dry from my house all the way to Binghamton. Speaking of...
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7/23/2010

D&H 302, Well Maybe...

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I t's a fake. but it's a good one!!!! Arrived on the SVRR today. She will probably take the Frazier for an inspection tour of the...
7/11/2010

Summer Camp In Island Pond

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I t seemed to be an obvious move in the middle of a heat wave in Vermont during July fourth week, retire to camp in Bloomfield. Its ten degr...

Amtrak at Amsterdam

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G ot a tip on Monday June 21st that there was a Clean Warbonnet and some CP power going west out of Selkirk. At the time I was home finishin...
6/15/2010

Through The Trees

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G ot a little creative with this one. Had one hand on the Branch and the other on the Camera Body. Taken from the Old Abondoned Old State Ro...
5/21/2010

Sherman? Sherman is that you?

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E ntering Cambridge, NY two mornings back after the two hour plus drive down from the compound, it appeared to be just another grand upstate...

The Hill Job..

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J ust so you can remember winter, Jim Layfaette sent this along from the early 90's. Jimmy and this brakeman head up the hill out of For...

Lee Schamberger's Update!

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M ore trees added to the layout, more to come. Made 103 trees using Super trees kits and Grand Central Gems conifers. Thanks, Lee
5/06/2010

Shipyard?

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T his past Tuesday morning, (early hours) I received an e-mail from photographer Frank Jolin that the 8569 was working the MM&A Newport...

Busy Little Town..

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D ue to its geographic location the Village of Altamont is a busy little place. People who live in the Hilltowns and who drive each day to A...
4/21/2010

Stranger In The Kingdom

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T onight we visit the quintessential Vermont village, South Royalton, along the NECR main line. Apart from the early summer like temps this...
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