There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” My oldest daughter got married! I’ve shared my love of trains with her since she was born. In fact, her first word was Shay (Although my wife disagrees.) I was holding her as we walked by […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” Once every couple of years I take my little train to Shay Park. Although it’s tiny compared to the club locomotive, it’s still fun to bring it out and take it around the track. Sharing this […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” I recently volunteered to help with parking at the Lehi Rodeo and guess what? The train tracks are right next to the rodeo grounds! As a bonus for my service I got to see Frontrunner go […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” This last month has been full of train activities. I saw lots of the full sized ones in Durango. Here I am with one of my buddies who works down there. I built and helped install […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” Almost every month there’s some convention or activity. This last month I attended the Sn3 Symposium. I wondered why it was called a symposium instead of convention. Well, the definition says it is a conference to […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” With modular layouts you can build them in your basement and then take them to the train show to share with others! Here I am with two of my modules. When setup at a train show […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” Sometimes you get to see the real trains our models represent! I don’t have this exact locomotive but I have a couple similar ones. I need this one now. It was cool seeing it in person […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” Our last layout tour was at Jon Robinson’s Double Diamond Model Railroad and it is not in a basement. In fact, it is in a couple shipping containers in his backyard! A very unique idea and […]

I’m sorry to say that we lost another one of our members, Charlie Treft. He served as our clinic coordinator for several years. The past while he has had some health problems but he was able to attend meetings again a couple times before having to stay home again. I […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” It is said that the only constant is change and the Red Car Trolley at Disney’s California Adventure is another thing changing. It opened in 2012 and is stopping next month to make way for new […]