• Downloadable plans to build a 1:20.3-scale watchman’s tower plus four others (search for “tower”) Small ore cars use a small-radius track within the mine yard at the stamp mill on Richard’s mainline. He first learned how to make stairs by following an article in GR years ago...
Rolling Meadows Couple on Track with a Garden RailroadByline: Arlene Arends Daily Herald Staff WriterArends, Arlene
Then you have the fun of adapting your plans to the reality of what lies before you! Microclimates are a thing. I have been living here about 20 years, and I am still shocked how little distance can separate a deluge from a sun drenched beach. I am hardly kidding when I say what ...
Raised Platform Railroad Articles, Redux The story of our new railroad, starts with many plans, false starts, and new plans, but by the time we had the first "proof of concept" installed, we felt we were definitely on the right track. It is told in our ourNew Boston and Donnels Creek...
I used to eat my way all along this railroad track when I was a boy, eating many handfuls of raspberries and blackberries. This was a partly cloudy day and for much of the walk the sun had been behind clouds, so when I saw this maple tree I had been walking towards suddenly become ...
Jennifer Burklow