I've just bought "Make it run like a Dream: Rolling Stock".  It's an excellent book and a "must have".  I model Danish railways in the late 1960s (the very end of a very long steam-to-diesel transition period for the state railways), so not everything is relevant to my situation but there is more than sufficient meat to make the book a very good purchase.

The last chapter in the book on car weight is thought provoking, and as Joe Fugate suggested, likely to cause some controversy.  So, let me add a footnote to the controversy.

Welcome to my first entry for what will be the blog on my new Manns Creek Railway in On3.  I started build in On30 a little more than 10 years ago as a diversion from working in HO scale.  At the time I had built a fictional railroad in HO scale called the Roanoke and Southern, which was featured in the May 2010 issue of MR.  by the time my article was published is was firmly hooked on O scale narrow gauge.  Although if first started constructing models in On30 (O scale models with 30" track gauge) I soon widened the gauge out to On3 (O scale models w

I just published a video, "The DRE Job: A Switching Primer".  It shows step by step how I switch an industrial area on my layout and explains what moves I'm making and why I made those moves.  Hopefully this will help people understand how to plan and organize their switching.

Enjoy!

We often hear of the "transition era" referring to the final years of steam running alongside early diesels in the mid- to late-1950s.  As someone born post-steam and who prefers to model what I've actually seen, I've never had an interest in basing a layout on that period.  However, there have been many more transition eras since then, and I've found that the opportunity they afford to model the juxtaposition of old against new can add a lot of interest to our modeling.