Up Dunes Junction

Testing my aged-to-perfection matte medium and Highball Natural Lime- stone ballast on small pieces of (expendable) transition track. ...

The past couple of weeks have been quite eventful, with epic power outages here in Washington and all kinds of other work and neighborhood c...

Work has been getting in the way of progress on the Dunes Junction, so it's only fitting that I post a photo of new a-building Washingto...

In a sort of sad post announcing the retirement of O scale custom traction model maker Jean Deschenes , Ed Halstead at the Modeling Insull...

This little ditty was in my email a few days ago . . . If model railroading publishing giant Kalmbach really wanted to impress us, the...

Doesn't it look awesome? Now I have a reminder of its DCC address. It will also shame me into getting this project done. I didn...

A lot of good insights here, a few of which directly apply to model and railroad photography: 100 Tips from a Professional Photographer ...

Indiana Harbor Belt's Gibson Yard in Hammond, IN in National News.  The South Shore is a mile or two north of this spot.  Purdue Calum...

Samsung TL500 Something I strive to do with each Up Dunes Junction post is include some decent photographs. Part of this photograph p...

The South Shore Line. (CBS) This just in from WBBM Chicago! Summit Could Mean Airport-Style Security On Metra Electric, South Shore Tr...

Jean Ishmon, pal of my wife and me, is a fellow Northwest Indiana native who occasionally hangs out in Washington but is still very much con...

Bachmann E60CP with DCC factory installed!  (Apologies for the bad focus . . . it was a hasty photo for this hasty, impulse purchase) ...

The Tree Line and Backdrop.  I plan to go to the real Mineral Springs Road sometime in the next year or so (while visiting my son, who is ...

Duneland Electric by Donald R. Kaplan I journeyed up to Timonium, Maryland last weekend for Howard Zane's Great Scale Train show wi...

With No. 2 son finishing up high school and choosing a college and churn at work, it's been interesting times.  Work on Dunes Junction h...