Great Northern 363 ABC crosses the Stanislaus River bridge during a test run following decoder programming. The Stockton & Copperopolis ...

  The new locomotive San Andreas  sits on the Duck Creek Trestle shortly after arrival. The past couple of months have been somewhat hectic ...

  One of my 2-6-0s with the new Minebea motor fitted. The shaft size was even the same as the old Sagami (lower right) so everything pretty ...

The Keystone in its shiny paint a few days after delivery. Let's hope the mining company continues to maintain this finish. Note the con...

A combination of 3D printed boiler/cab on a HOn30 mechanism produced this nice little switch engine for the yard at Holden. The track slid...

The Storey  sits on the Copperopolis turntable ready for her next assignment. The engine was the Virginia and Truckee Railroad's No. 3...

The Virginia & Truckee's Ormsby  sits on the Oakdale turntable. On lease from the V&T, the locomotive will add some power to t...

The upper locomotive is of the Virginia & Truckee Storey  while the bottom is that of the Ormsby. My slow-moving locomotive project ...

The Lyon's boiler now sits atop the chassis outside its shed in Iowa. This week, I was in Mason City, Iowa and decided to visit t...

A rendering of the Ormsby's  sister engine, the Lyon . Both were built in 1869 by the Union Iron Works in San Francisco.  February w...

The stripped down Porter Mogul with new cylinders, motor/gearbox and drivers.  Now that the Christmas season is behind us, I can finally...

The S&C's new American at the head of Train No. 6 ready to depart from Oakdale. The passenger cars are brass imports by Beaver Cre...

The Calaveras on its first day of work. The number on the headlight lens is so that opposing engineers can tell which engine they are mee...

The newly wiped down Stanislaus waits patiently at Oakdale for the day's work to begin. After a month of working on it, the Stani...

The  C.A. Coscia  stands at the Oakdale depot awaiting an assignment. The striping is based on the prototype  C.P. Huntington  at th...

The new Stockton & Ione locomotive is now in the yard at Holden. Although the narrow gauge Stockton & Ione Railroad is not a maj...

Following my last posting (Finally, Some Sound), I had a few questions on how I mounted the electronics in the slope-back tender of the ...

The Number 19 at Orford Junction. Like everyone, I work on a project for a while, get tired of it, quit, and, hopefully, get back to it ...