Rice's Rails

For a variety of reasons, most importantly to shorten my commute and get some free time back, I recently moved.  I have a nice new space des...

Despite my intention to ignore the problem of car routing and paper work for the time being, it has been hard to avoid getting distracted by...

So far I've been doing my test runs on the N scale Palmer Industrial Park with the NCE PowerCab I keep on my workbench for programming ...

Progress this weekend was limited to installing ground throws for the track that's already laid.  I spent the rest of the available mode...

Now that I actually have half the track down and can do a little switching, many potential side tracks (pun definitely intended) are beckoni...

Today I ran the bus wire, connected the feeders to it, fixed a screw up on a turnout, and did a bunch of track cleaning and test running.  I...

Some time ago I wrote up how I did point jumpers on my Atlas O code 148 turnouts.  For N scale I'm using Atlas N code 55 turnouts.  My r...

As I noted back in my post at the end of 2011 Aeronautical Distractions I've gotten into the hobby of radio controlled airplanes.  In...