Folks, The 5th annual Michiana Model Railroad Symposium will be held Friday and Saturday April 13th and 14th at the National New York Central Railroad Museum in Elkhart. Indiana. The museum is alongside the former NYC mainline to Chicago where upwards of a hundred trains pass by ever day. More than enough trains to satisfy [...]

Innkeeper Note:  If you’re a model railroader, you may already know about the criticism likely to be heaped upon you if you don’t do a ‘decal job’ neatly.  So what if the prototype makes an obvious error?  Are they ‘excused?’  Are they ‘given a pass?’  Or have they created a ‘prototype’ which modelers will purposely [...]

Dear GoRail Supporter: Next Thursday, February 2, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee will vote on whether to allow bigger trucks nationwide –including expanded operation of triple-trailer trucks. We need your help to stop this. Thank you to all of you who already emailed your Members of Congress. For those who have yet to visit [...]

Innkeeper Note:  Once in awhile we actually see a CLEAN freight car.  Witness a few days ago, when this Cryo-Trans mechanical reefer passed by The FALLSTON FLAGSTOP Railfan B&B on the CSX Pittsburgh Sub.  We suspect it must have been fresh out of a paint shop.  Too bad it won’t stay this way.  The PAINT [...]