CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Subdivision

It was a good run, but Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Valley Railway—the “Route of the Hazelnuts”—has come to the end of the line.   The one-eight...

Weller Beer is the first named industry on the layout. I’ve decided to name them after childhood places and streets in my hometown of St. Ca...

  The Gateway Spur is back! Or maybe it’s more correct to say I’m back with the Gateway Spur.   The layout never went away. But it has bee...

As I wrote earlier, this pandemic has got me down. It's hard to work on the layout, or come up with fresh content for the blog. But I ha...

Like many other things during the pandemic, the Gateway Spur has been shut down. Unlike the real world, it wasn’t loss of traffi...