by mike | May 9, 2017 | The Missing Conversation, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
A sixteenth of an inch is the only real difference between traditional O scale track and P48. It isn’t that much but in the 1950s that sixteenth of an inch often meant war between traditionalists and those who saw the potential of closer to scale wheels and a...
by mike | Feb 14, 2017 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Missing Conversation, The Modeling Conversation, The P48 Experience |
Despite several revisions in its final years, I consider my former Indiana & Whitewater a success. It taught me valuable lessons and helped clarify a vision that I might not have had without it. Give The Devil His Due. Working in quarter-inch scale came with a...
by mike | Feb 10, 2017 | OST Believes, Storytelling, The Missing Conversation
Recently I’ve noticed the railroad often leaves an engine in town overnight or for several days. The two photos below show one of the locals that works Richmond. The 9419 and consist were left idling and parked in the yard over the weekend earlier this month. I...
by mike | Feb 7, 2017 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft
In the book, The Mohawk that Refused to Abdicate and Other Tales, writer David P. Morgan described Horseshoe Curve as: “…that great cinder-laden arc which Pennsy describes on the steep wall of the Alleghenies as it seeks to outwit gravity in the eternal...
by mike | Jan 18, 2017 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft |
I grabbed the camera and went out this morning. I had a visual composition I wanted to explore and shot images accordingly. The header photo sums up the outcome of the work. Of all the images, this one draws me in the most. Technically I suppose, this is a lousy...
