- Apr 17
- 4 min
Leap Year? More Like Lima Year! Shays, Mikados and Pacifics (Part 1 of 2)
I’m writing this during a leap year, which means we experienced February 29th in 2024. According to NASA, leap years exist because Earth...
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- Mar 22
- 7 min
Model Train Online Shopping Fail: Lessons Learned After Buying a Locomotive on eBay
My luck was bound to run out. I had very few problems with ordering trains online, other than a wonky Weaver Dreyfuss Hudson that my mom...
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- Mar 19
- 7 min
A Gen Z Look at the American Orient Express: The Last Luxury Passenger Train of America?
I was browsing volume II of Lionel’s 2023 catalog with my brain in neutral, thumbing through pages of Legacy steam engines and diesels....
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- Feb 12
- 6 min
John Oliver's Take on Freight Trains and Thomas the Tank Engine (Train Crashes Part 3)
The Circle of Choo Choo Life: I think we should make a train version of “The Circle of Life” from The Lion King because it seems like,...
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