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Narrow gauge railroads offer lots of fun to modelers

Gauge is thedistance between the inside of the heads of track rails. Most prototyperailroads in North America and Europe are built to a standard...

Historic opportunity comes to Roanoke

Friday nighta historic event will take place in downtown Roanoke as the O. Winston Link Museum hosts "An Evening Among Stars with NS History...

Roanoke promoting rail history to tourists

Roanoke is promoting its' railroad heritage to attract tourists.Rail lines weave romantically throughout Roanoke, tying the town to ports and...

Model a disaster zone on your railroad?

The impact of Hurricane Irene on railroads throughout the Eastern United States has brought up the idea again about how to model (or if to model) a...

Classic Model Railroads: The Allegheny Midland

Roanoke's own Norfolk & Western Railroad was known primarily as a coal hauler. The N&W focused on hauling "King Coal" from...

Civil War Railroads have modeling potential

Sometimes it is hard to believe that it has been 150 years since the beginning of the Civil War, or the War between the States as it is referred to...

‘Big Roads’ author Earl Swift brings interstate story to Charlottesville

By coincidence, on March 24, the same day that President Barack Obama used his weekly radio-video address to urge Congress to pass a transportation...

Arlington County Board hopeful Mark Kelly runs in March special election

Although the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is a national event, attracting participants from across the United States and...

Higher gas prices won’t change American car culture, says transportation expert

Higher gasoline prices will not fundamentally affect the travel habits of Americans, asserts transportation expert Alan E. Pisarski, author of the ...