Archive for January, 2007

The Grimstad Line - 1961

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
The Grimstad Line website is the fine creation of Tore Hjellset – the webmaster and modeler. With a great gallery of detailed photos, and a clean, easy-to-navigate design, the GL is an inspirational model railroading resource. The most striking feature of the site and its contents is how manageable everything is. Tore [...]

Charlie Comstock’s Railroad Pages

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
While looking over some of the past winners of the annual Model Railroader Magazine photo content, it dawned on me to actually search online to see if the winners had website. I was pleased to discover that Charlie Comstock, of Bear Creek and South Jackson fame had a fantastic site! Loaded with tons [...]

Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line

Thursday, January 18th, 2007
While cruising through a number of my bookmarks, I rediscovered a link to Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line website and was happy I had found it. Likely one of the most advanced websites catering to model railroading, the Siskyou site is professionally designed and feature rich. Offering an online forum, outstanding modeling photos, free [...]

Southern Pacific Railroad – Gotham Subdivision

Thursday, January 11th, 2007
I ran across this site several years ago and immediately fell in love with it.  Well designed and thoughtfully arranged, the Gothan City Sub site is virtual repository of George Sellios’ Franklin and South Manchester Railroad images.  Matt Gidley, the webmaster, has a number of photos of his own outstanding modeling efforts, as well as [...]

The Central Missouri & Southern Railroad / Osage Valley Tie & Lumber Co. Railroad

Friday, January 5th, 2007
This well designed and thoughtfully constructed website is a pleasure to explore! Handsome, and intuitively organised, users can sift through dozens of outstanding photographs of the two respective railroads. The modeling is top-notch, and highlighted by close-up photographs and several tutorials. The railroad has also enjoyed a number of reviews by Finescale [...]