What's New

June 15 , 2008

  • Added model pictures to the "Locomotives of the Empire Builder'. Articles Page
  • Added more pictures of Barry's now painted Rio Grande L-131 locomotive FRIENDS Page

June 2 , 2008

 

May 7 , 2008

  • Added pictures taken by Charlie during Dave's recent visit. LAYOUT Page
  • Added a new page of my friend Gary E's layout. FRIENDS Page
  • Added a new pictures to Barry's Rio Grande layout page. FRIENDS Page
  • Added a new pictures to Craig's Rio Grande layout page. FRIENDS Page
  • Added a new pictures to Wes' Chicago Traction layout page. FRIENDS Page
  • Added a new page entitled Locomotives of the Empire. ARTICLES Page

March 7 , 2008

  • Added pictures taken by Charlie and Dave at the recent OSW meet.
  • Added a new pictures to Barry's Rio Grande layout page.
  • Added a new pictures to Carl's Cascade Northern layout page.
  • Added more pictures of my railroad.

December 18 , 2007

  • Added a new pictures to Carl's Cascade Northern layout page.
  • Added a new pictures to Craig's Rio Grande layout page.
  • Added more pictures of my railroad. This time on the recent open house and progress at the town of Fidalgo. Find them on December 2007 icon on the LAYOUT PAGE .

 

November 2, 2007

  • Added new page on the layout's progress. Go to the LAYOUT page
  • Added a new page for Eric V's models. FRIENDS Page
  • Added new pictures of Lee's pike. Also on FRIENDS Page
  • Added pictures from our summer trip to the Northwest, like the one left, on the BOOMER Page.

July 2 , 2007

  • Added more pictures of my railroad. This time using 'imported help' installing decoders. Find them on July 2007 icon on the LAYOUT PAGE .

May 5 , 2007

  • Added new page about The Kettle Falls Branch. Click here or go to the ARTICLES page
  • Added a new page for Jerry Mc's models. He is 'between layouts'. LAYOUT Page
  • Added pictures from our recent trip to the Middle East, like the one left, on the BOOMER Page.
  • Added more pictures of Wes' outstanding pike on the LAYOUT Page .
  • Added a picture of recent visitor to Charlie's pike on the LAYOUT Page .

March 3 , 2007

  • Added new page for Phil's Gila Mountain Railroad
  • Added a new page for Craig's Rio Grande layout.
  • Added a new section to the FRIENDS page for some non-O gage layouts. The first layout is Barry B's G gage pike.
  • Added pictures taken by Charlie Morrill at the recent OSW meet.
  • Added more pictures of my railroad. This time on painting some electric locomotives. Find them on Feburary 2007 icon on the LAYOUT PAGE .
Feburary 23 , 2007
  • Posted new watercolor pictures of GN Y-1 electrics in the Cascades and a P-2 Mountain.
  • Added new pictures of Charlie's and Victor/Carl's pikes on the FRIENDS page.
  • Though no photos, I have been busy converting to EZ DCC. I'm very pleased with it.
November 28 , 2006
  • I get no responses to the quiz so I reformatted the MAIN Page back to the way it was. Posted new picture of a GN Rotary plow in action at Marias Pass.
  • Added new pictures of Lee's, Charlie's and Carl's pikes on the FRIENDS page .
  • Added more material to the Caboose page.
  • Added more pictures of my railroad after the November 2006 open house. Find them on December 2006 pictures on the LAYOUT PAGE

November 1, 2006

October 11, 2006

July 1, 2006

May 22 , 2006

  • Added new pictures to MAIN page of S-2 skirting GNP and cover of 'Call of the Mountains' brochure.
  • Added more calenders to ARTWORK section.
  • Added new pictures to FRIENDS section.

April 5 , 2006

  • Added new pictures to main Page of O-8 and dining car service.
  • Added recent pictures to layout section.
  • Added new pictures to FRIENDS section.

February 18, 2006

  • Added O Scale West page to FRIENDS section.
  • Reorganized FRIENDS section by splitting into four pages so that it will load faster.
  • Added a picture of F-8 to main Page. The loco placed first popular vote contest at OSW in the steam loco catagory.
  • Added more information to chinaware page in Artwork section.

January 9, 2006

  • Viewed page in Internet Explorer and corrected several glitches that do not show up in Netcape.
  • Added more pictures to layout section.
  • Reformatted several pages in Artwork section.
  • Added more links
  • Reformatted Articles page.
Updated several articles to present a more uniform appearence.
Converted links within site. The basic design is now complete. Hopefully, future updates will only be made monthly.

December 26, 2005

  • Adjusted menu bar to make roll over section easier to read.
  • Reworked several articles and added new pictures on the Articles page

December 22, 2005

  • Added pictures of Lee's layout to Friends page.
  • Added O Scale West and O Scale Kings to Links page
  • Added new link on the Articles page for 1924 Oriental Limited containing complete text and B&W pictures.
  • Added South American railroad pictures to the Boomer/About Me page

December 18, 2005

Once upon a time there was a group of modelers who called themselves the Houston O gage Society

about 15 years ago the some of the HOGS gathered at my layout .

 

November 15, 2005

  • Up loaded pictures from the layout open house and placed on a new page.
  • Began serious work on this site, creating pages for each article and the current layout.
  • Set deadline of December 1 to have the Oriental Limited page finished, in time for it's 100th Anniversary on December 5.
November 2, 2005
  • Conceived the bacic design of this new site.
  • Imported some photos as well as images to be used as navigational icons.
  • Updated the links page Imported the shell of several articles written for the GNRHS but could not convert text written for the Goat articles. The articles were written on a laptop in a Wordperfect program.
  • Two problems converting the files are the laptop does not have a disk burner and is a PC configuration. This website is being developed on a MAC desktop that has neither a floppy disk drive nor a Wordperfect program.

September - October 2005

I finally took the bull by the horns and began to learn the Dreamweaver software. Imported a few images and basically started work on this site.
Imported the old links page.

December 2004

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