It is no secret that railroads interest me. Family connections to the profession guaranteed it. From a young age, that interest became a passion. Both in model form as well as full size. So much so, that when I graduated high school, there was a brief period where I seriously considered it as a [...]

Terminal nostalgia aside, life in years gone by was not easy or fun most of the time. As much as anyone, I wish for a time when things were simpler and less complicated. But the truth is that if one looks back to the era seen above or a couple of decades before, folks worked [...]