CSX is continuing the Clinchfield Santa Train this year. https://www.timesnews.net/Community/2019/10/28/Marty-Stuart-to-be-special-guest-on-77th-Santa-Train Does anyone known if the ET&WNC everybopera

Juice for Linville While not as glamorous as the number two spot working its way to the Linville interchange with a load of logs, electrical wiring is extremely important on a model railroad. With a f

The ET long hopper and Ethyl’s gas station have been sold. Contact me off list re: purchasing the other items. Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/ -- Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.c

Hi Don, thanks for searching us out. While the Historical Society does not have records per se, we do have a vast collective knowledge amongst our hundreds of Society members and ET&WNC followers. I'm

Recent, unplanned discussions regarding our inevitable downsizing to a smaller house has caused me to begin the process of thinning my collection. I didn’t expect to be considering this for several mo

I'm thinking of maybe submitting an article to the group magazine on basic easy improvements for the Bachmann ten-wheelers, but I thought I'd share this all with you. I created sets of scale builder p

Evolution at Linville The transformation from blue foam to colourful topography is underway on the layout design element at Linville on the On30 ET& WNC RR. Low lying shrubs and grasses have been plan

I swore I saw the scale ghosts of Cy Crumley and Sherman Pippin in O scale last night. I snapped some shots, thinking when I looked later, they'd just be of empty track. Halloween came early for the S

Just a quick note to say the latest issue of ETWNC went out from the printer nearly a week ago. Unfortunately, when I got my extra copies there was an issue with the roster that is in the back of the

How was the Fall Colors weekend this year, as well as other railroad activities this year at DRG?

Just got this from an ebay win, looks for sure like 1930s paper, not printed off someone's computer. I'm curious what the rest of you think, as I've never seen one in person before... Lee

Johnny ... pls contact me off-list via email. I don't have your current email addy and have a couple questions re: a project I'm working on. Thx. -- Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com

All, The October ET&WNC RR Historical Society Newsletter is in the mail, those of you who are members should receive them early next week. Thank you Curtis for all the latest Society and ET related st

I'm posting this across some different groups. Apple recently announced a new operating system named Catalina. I found out from a friend in Virginia who posts photos to his website that Catalina only

Looking good sir. Bill Uffelman

BLUE FOAM TAKES ON SOME COLORS AND TEXTURE. On my On30 logging mini layout I used Blue Foam landforms in anticipation of this layout depicting the ET &WNC. Even learned to carve the foam to look like

I've had a little more time to work on the Linnville LD E. This is what I'm shooting for in the next few months: I placed the 1:1 track plan on the blue foam shelf layout. I used the turnout templates

Https://www.ebay.com/itm/EAST-TENNESSEE-WESTERN-NORTH-CAROLINA-RR-HISTORICAL-RESEARCH-SCANNED-TO-CD-/323909013970 I ordered one of these, should be here this coming week. It makes sense, as otherwise

The society’s magazine “Every Time with No Complaint” was sent to the printer today, and it is a WHOPPER, coming in at just under 100 pages (not a typo). In my decade-plus of laying out the magazine,

Enjoy your vacation. Looking forward to more RR updates. Bill Uffelman