Model Railroading
5 Sep 2015
As I model the Allentown, PA area in the mid-1990s, I knew that I would need a yellow-and-gray GATX SD40-2 lease unit for the Delaware & Hudson trackage rights trains that plied the rails from Rouses Point, New York to Philadelphia, Penna. During this era, railfans drowned in a sea of blue Conrail locomotives, and […]
J. Alex Lang
17 Jan 2015
It’s been a little while since I’ve updated here, so I thought I should do that while the basement clears out from Testors Dullcote fumes. Over the Christmas break, my daughters and I completed some minor expansion on the Aspinwall Belt. Inspired in part by Dave Abeles’ recent Island Track addition, we relocated the Bethlehem […]
Railroads
2 Jan 2015
After the 2012 release of Norfolk Southern Corp’s twenty “Heritage Locomotives”, many camera-toting rail enthusiasts sought to photograph all twenty. Many of us (me included) made the trek to Spencer, North Carolina, where NS partnered with the North Carolina Transportation Museum to display all 20 in one location: But this is shooting fish in a […]
10 Sep 2014
In March, I acquired a pair of used Kato SD40s, one of which was Conrail 6345.
14 Jun 2014
Last summer, on a random trip to a local hobby shop, I spotted Conrail 3401 for sale at a good price. Thinking that I could use some more four axle power for my intermodal trains, I purchased the Athearn RTR unit for about $65. I knew that the numberboards would need to be re-decaled as […]
7 Jan 2014
In October, the Aspinwall Belt hosted the first “official” Operating Session. For the uninitiated, this is essentially a bunch of grown men pretending to run a real railroad, when obviously it isn’t. But that’s the last time you’ll hear me admit this. I set up some documentation for the group, including an overall train plan, […]
