by mike | Jun 26, 2013 | The Missing Conversation |
I’m surprised at how many ways modelers have invented to provide some sense of purpose in moving cars and trains around their layouts. From cards of every sort to thumb tacks, sticky notes, color coded tabs and spinning an arrow on a wheel, we’ve tried it...
by mike | Feb 13, 2013 | The Missing Conversation |
“It’s a little bizarre to back up a 3000 foot train without any visual reference, or to operate long hood forward and not see anything on your opposite side for hundreds of feet! The trainmen on the ground are your eyes. You learn to rely on what they are...
by mike | Feb 6, 2013 | Pieces of The Puzzle |
Recent comments to my January 23, 2013 post titled: Your Layout is Finished, Now What? indicate that I’ve done a poor job of communicating the purpose and operations of my layout/railroad/empire/transportation system/whatever. After umpteen blog posts, a...
by mike | Nov 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
I firmly believe that the quality of our understanding is directly related to the quality of the questions we ask. I’ve been in this hobby in some manner for forty years. With that amount of experience, it’s easy to think I know it all. This is stupid of...
by mike | Aug 29, 2012 | Uncategorized |
We’ve all seen forum posts from some modeler sweating over the design/redesign of his first, second, third, tenth layout. When I read something like this I wonder to myself about what’s going on. Why is this person struggling so? Why is he, or she,...
