Railway World is up to its third episode and each show is getting better.

In this episode Mark Found tours the Severn Valley Railroad, the Paddock miniature railway and takes care of my request for continental railways. Enjoyed the clips from the German Ediger Eller layout. Thanks Mark :)



The production is slick and as i had said before, Mark's style is entertaining. I love the old black and white ads that he puts in. I recommend you download the show so that you can watch it full screen on your PC. Bookmark-worthy!

Model Railroad Hobbyist is bringing out a free PDF interactive magazine starting January 2009. This is the latest project by Joe Fugate, of the Siskiyou Line. Check out the 10 page demo of this magazine or view Joe's demo of this magazine that he gave at the NMRA convention this year.




Subscriber's get the magazine two weeks before its available to everyone else, so do sign up if you liked the demo.

Joe's got excellent videos on design and scenery. I have purchased some of his videos and judging by the wealth of his tips, i am looking forward to this magazine.

Kuju's Rail Simulator had a screenshot competition. The winners and their entries have been posted. Since their theme for the contest was seasonal, most of the winners show scenery and less of the trains. My vote would have been for Glen Tarrant's entry.

US Senate has approved $13 Billion funding for Amtrak. (Who all voted?) Some of this will cover operating and capital expenses, including equipment purchases and railroad repairs. The rest will be towards new safety measures, including a new technology known as positive train control, or PTC, on passenger trains and certain hazmat rail main lines by 2015. This would have prevented the Metrolink crash that happened last month.

Video Report: Wall Street Journal reports on the Amtrak's Undeveloped Corridors

This clip covers the journey from Brighton (Sussex UK) to Hove and return.

Telegraph.co.uk used software to redraw the countries, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects.

For us, the rail travel atlas is fascinating, with India accounting for more than a fifth of the total distance covered by trains.

Picture courtesy: kedziers
Wind Turbines being transported. Click on the above picture for kedziers's slideshow.