New Index by Year

There are two indexes on the blog; one by topic, which I stopped updating in 2011 (once you fall behind, it's hard to catch up), and this one--by month and year beginning in 2012. I'll try to keep this one updated, and I hope it helps you find what you are looking for!

2013

January

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad in England

·  A New Video

·  Even More About Self Coupling Air Hoses

·  Interview with Inventor of Self Coupling Air Hoses

·  Hotel Room With a View--and a Model Railroad!

·  Self Coupling HO Scale Air Hoses: This is Cool!

·  Before and After on the CP Rail M & M Sub.

·  Another Guy with a Real Train In His Basement

·  The Guy With a (Real) Train in his Basement

·  A Great "Underground" Model Railway

·  Looking Back at 2012: Most Popular Pages

February

·  Hunter Harrison and Hump Yards

·  Update on Self-Coupling Air Hoses

·  Winnipeg's Love-Hate Relationship railway yard

·  30-Car Rapido Turbo Train: Wow!

·  A Model Railroader Editor's Great Model Railroad

·  Steampunk Trains

·  Rivet Counters Beware!

·  Dwight Kjartanson's Great Canadian Module

·  Every Layout Could Use A Gorillapod

·  Great Canadian Model Railroads Index

·  New Index by Year

March

·  End of the Line for The Model Railway Show

·  More Operational Interest with the Hospital Train

·  Who Says A Loop of Track is Unprototypical?

·  A Model Railroad Bucket List

·  Al Capone, Prohibition and the Thunder Creek Model.

·  Hospital Train on the Manitoba & Minnesota Sub.

·  Switching In Fort Frances: Lucky I Had My Camera!

·  Toronto Model Railroad Club Closes.

·  Model Railroading as Art, or Art as Model Railroading.

·  Railway Timetables, or What Would You Save in a Fire?

April

·  More Progress on the CP Rail M & M Sub.

·  KISS and Model Railroading

·  Working on the Railroad: Adding Scenery

·  Another Announcement at Supertrain Show

·  Athearn Announces New HO Scale Locomotive

·  Making Trees

·  Missile Train Spotted on Vancouver Island

·  Some Great O Gauge Layout Photos

·  Keep Calm and Build Model Trains

May

·  The Gravy Train and Other Railway Idioms

·  The 1967 Confederation Trainl

·  Another View of Riding The Canadian

·  Riding VIA's The Canadian

·  Toilets and Trains, or, When You Gotta Go

·  Neil Young and Clyde Coil

·  Train in the Bathroom

·  Locomotives for Sale

·  World Changers: The Web and the Railway

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June

·     ·  Mooning Amtrak Day

·  John Allen Memorial Breakfast

·  More Photos of Rich Loveman's Model Railroad

·  Florida to New Jersey by Train in under 3 Minutes

July

·  Baseball and Trains

·  Top Gear and Trains

·  Making More Windows, or Through a Glass Darkly

·  30th Anniversary of the 1983 NMRA Railway Jamboree

·  Railfanning BNSF in Fargo, ND, Dilworth, MN

·  Lac Megantic Railway Disaster

·  On the Road Again: Making a Street on the M & M Sub.

·  Snakes on a Train: GO Transit Train Flooded

·  Andreas Keller's CN Fergus Sub.

·  More Layout Progress: Planting Trees

·  A Visit to the South Simcoe Railway in Ontario

August

· R.I.P. Elmwood Hobby Works

· Death and the Model Railroader, VI: R.I.P. Bill Taylor.

· Layout For Sale: $3.5 million (P.S. Comes With House).

· 500,000 Views

· Photo Magic (The Old-Fashioned Way)

· Canadian Pacific Railway Sees the Light on the Portal Sub.

· Putting the Die in Diorama.

· Hanging Out at the Yard

· Backshoring: Hornby Moving Model Trains to UK

· Beer and Trains

September

·  Photos for Windows: Another Set of Buildings Done

·  Video: Cab Ride on the Prairie Dog Central Railway.

·  Winnipeg's Gateway Western Model Railroad Back Home

·  Greeley Freight Station Museum Safe From Flooding

·  Starting Over: Would I Do It Again?

·  End of an Era: Fine Scale Miniatures Closes

·  Update on Bowser SD40-2 Units

·  Update on Automatic Self-Coupling Air Hoses

·  Last Ride on the Assiniboine Valley Railway?

·  New Book Chronicles U.S. Train-Hopping Culture

·  A Very Unique Lash-up

·  Another Prairie Giant Bites the Dust

·  Growing My Own (Crop of Trees, That Is)

October

·  Bomb Squad Called About Model Train

·  Changes at Ritchie: New Prairie Sentinel

·  Nuns on a Train (and in an Amtrak ad)

·  Friendship Train and the Case of the Missing Car

·  Train Show!

·  Fall, Thanksgiving, Trains and Train Shows

·  Free Rides on VIA Rail

·  Switching Layouts on the CP Rail M & M Sub.

·  Caboose Art

November

·  "Ten Pounds of Layout in a Five Pound Room"

·  Biggest Model Railroad Yard?

·  Best Snow Scene Ever?

·  (Late) Update on the Goshen College Train Tunnel

·  New Bridges on the Manitoba & Minnesota Sub.

·  First Look At Bowser's New Canadian SD40-2 Locomot...

·  Trains, Money and the New Canadian $10 Bill

·  Tornadoes and Trains: Who Knew They Were So Popula...

·  Goodbye Big Blue (Conrail, That Is)

·  Week of Remembrance: Model a War Memorial

·  Week of Remembrance: CPR Winged Victory

December

·  Aberfoyle Junction Layout Back Up and Running Agai...

·  Feliz Navidad! from the M & M Sub.

·  Grain Rush II

·  Winnipeg's Oldest Home Layout Gone

·  Last Layout

·  Hiding Another Hole on the Manitoba & Minnesota Su...

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Edmonton's Monashee...

·  The CPR Holiday Train

·  Grain Rush

2012

January

·  RIP, Ernie Labovich, a Model Railroad Friend

·  Bowser to Make Canadian SD40-2s

·  New CN Wide Cab GP38-2 from Athearn

·  Man, er, Model Railroad Cars Overboard!

·  InterMountain CP Rail SD40-2 Units: Could it Happen?

·  Warren Buffett: Model Railroader?

·  The CP Rail Multimark

·  A Fine Summer Day at Peace River Bridge

·  Layout Progress: (re) Wiring

·  Chinese Factory Closing: Athearn Confirms it is Affected.

·  Some Photos from the M & M Sub. (or, no Tebow Miracle)

·  Chinese Manufacturer Closes: Update

·  Chinese Manufacturer of Model Trains Closes

·  A Great Time to be a Canadian Model Railroader

·  Amazing 4,000 Square Foot Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific layout

·  The Craigellachie Kid, or the Boy in the Picture

·  150,000 Views

February

·  Canadian Pacificana

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: The Miller Creek Forestry Museum.

·  What’s Wrong With This Picture?

·  America in the 1940s-50s in Colour

·  In Praise of Hobby Shops

·  Cheap and Easy HO Scale Cork Roadbed

·  More 3D Printing and Model Railroading

·  Adding Real Train Sounds to Videos

·  Final Look at the Canada Central: Video

·  Sun Dogs and Trains

·  So That's How They Ballast Track in Norway

·  Model Railroad News Back from the Dead

·  Forty-Foot Boxcars on the M & M Sub.

·  Free Vintage Signs

March

·  Derelicts

·  Doug Tagsold’s New Layout, or The Model Railroader Curse.

·  More Backdrop Artistry: Tom Johnson

·  The Backdrop Artistry of Steve Flanigan

·  New Use for Old Containers

·  At Goshen College, No More Using Trains as an Excuse for Being Late for Class.

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Dan Crowley's Yellowhead Sub.

·  Upside-Down Ceiling Layout: Not An April Fool's Joke

·  The View From Above

·  Train Geeks and Trackside Treasures

April

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Dave Chomyn's Quintte Tunnels Modules.

·  Atlas Discontinues its Model Railroad Forums

·  Aberfoyle Junction Update: A Message from the Club

·  Great, and soon to be late, Canadian Model Railroad: Aberfoyle Junction.

·  Canadian SD40-2s from Bowser Confirmed

·  Railfanning on the M & M Sub.

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Mark Dance's Columbia & Western

·  A Railway, A Man and a Titanic Ambition

·  Lifting the Curtain on the Creation of Model Trains

·  Stop, Look and “Listen” to the Model Railway Show 1

·  Stop, Look and “Listen” to the Model Railway Show 2.

·  Stop, Look and “Listen” to the Model Railway Show 3

·  Doug Tagsold Sets His Sights Lower for His New Layout

·  The Canadian Has Landed

May

·  A Streetcar Named Derelict

·  Get by with a little help from my friends

·  Video of the Aberfoyle Junction

·  Railways and Postcards (or can you say "Deltiology"

·  Last Look at the Aberfoyle Junction

·  End of the Line for the Central Northern Subdivision

·  Model Railroad . . . in a Milk Can?

·  An Interesting Railfan Catch

June

·  The Turbo Train Visits Manitoba

·  Video of the G Scale Winter Valley Railway

·  Hiding Holes in Walls

·  A Tim Hortons Covered Hopper, er, Coffee, To Go

·  250,000 Views

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: The Winter Valley

·  Through the Window of a Train

·  Look Up--Way Up

July

·  More Northland Route: A Great Canadian Model Railroad

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: The Northland Route.

·  Hiding the Hole, Part III

·  Fantasy Schemes II, or Can You Believe Those Steamers

·  Video of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum

·  Hiding the Hole, Part 2.

·  Another Unusual Articulated Hopper: CN 399000

·  An Unusual Car: CN Articulated Hopper 398000

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Rich Chrysler's CNR Hagersville Sub.

·  Model Railroading as "Focal Practice"

·  Train of Hope, or, how many railway cars are needed for 40,000 Tones of Food Aid?

·  Great Model Railroad: Dave Rickaby's Wisconsin & Michigan

August

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: The S Scale Workshop

·  Private Owner's Train in Minneapolis-Saint Paul

·  Waterloo Region Model Railway Club

·  A Railway Museum for the CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota

·  Twin City Model Railroad Museum: Toy Train Division

·  Holiday Railfanning on the M & M Sub.

·  Hiding the Hole, Part IV: Done!

·  China and Model Railroad Manufacturing

September

·  Doing What Comes Naturally: CN Experiments with Natural Gas

·  Not Enough Space for a Layout? Didn't Stop This Modeller.

·  Of Lone Wolves and a Great Canadian Model Railroads..

·  Neil Young and Model Railroading:

·  The CPR Company Photographer

·  A Visit to CN's Symington Yard

·  All Aboard the Grey Cup Express

·  The Railway Artistry of Max Jacquiard

October

·  Another Great Canadian Railway Lost: Toronto Model Railroal Club

·  Two New Books About VIA Rail Released

·  Now That's The Way to Move a Layout!

·  New Siding on the M & M Sub.

·  Easy Operation on the CP Rail M & M Subdivision

·  Rapido's The Canadian As You've Never Seen it Before

·  Double Your Fleet of Rolling Stock--Without Adding More Cars

·  Even More CFL Grey Cup Express

·  Commemorative Railway Cars, Prototype and Models

·  Railways and Breast Cancer Awareness Month

·  More CFL Grey Cup Express

November

·  Chocolate and Trains: A Winning and World Record Combination

·  Great Model Railroad: Lyle Beck's Lake Michigan Division

·  VIA Rail Special on the M & M Sub.

·  First Snowfall on the Prairies

·  Canadian Railway Troops in World War One

·  Happy Anniversary, President's Choice (PC Express)

December

·  CP Rail SD40-2 6027: Still Running in the Real World & the M & M. Sub.

·  Christmas and Trains: Merry Boxcar Christmas (Reprise)

·  Christmas and Model Trains (4): Santa and Trains

·  Christmas and Model Trains (3): Trains Under the Christmas tree

·  Christmas and Model Trains (2): Lionel Trains on Christmas

·  Straight Dope on Straightest Track in the World (It's in Canada) 

·  Christmas and Model Trains (1): Garrison Keillor and Model Trains.

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Rich Loveman's CN & CPR in Thomspon River Canyon

·  Great Canadian Model Railroad: Fall in Pennsylvania