Hicks Car Works

The Pacific Electric collection is large, but I'll start with the wood cars, which are fairly limited in number.  There is little inform...

Today, let's see how good you are at solving yesterday's puzzles.    To begin with, Tim spent much of his time carefully cutting ou...

Many thanks to our indomitable investigative reporter, Gregg Wolfersheim, who sends along this update of his recent progress on Union Pacifi...

This will be brief.  I didn't get any pictures of what the others were doing.  But I managed to install one of the new third rail beams ...

The Utah interurbans, of course, are best known for their garish paint schemes which seem to have been inspired by the camouflage on WWI war...

We regret to report that John McKelvey died on July 4th at a VA hospital in Florida.  Also, he was born on July 4th, 1944, which I hadn...

Ted and Jim , we finally get around to presenting the Sacramento Northern.  These pictures are for you!   They were all taken by W. C. Whit...

In spite of some rather unpleasant weather, the annual CA&E abandonment festival went off pretty well. The first train out was the wood ...

CA&E Abandonment Day is coming up soon, (like tomorrow!!) and we need help.  We will be running a two-car steel train and a three-car wo...

As before, numbers in parentheses have been added for reference.  Other captions are taken verbatim from the prints. (2051) P&N #2100 Ga...