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Congrats, Dave. MMR # 590 has been announced in the March 2020 NMRA Magazine as David Yadock. The article includes several nods to John Allen as his inspiration. Great job, and thanks for helping to k

Lots of new contents added (I may have carpal tunnel syndrome after this!). Note for Newbies: gdlines.org and gdlines.info a two separate sites, for reasons I don't want to go into here. This update i

This arrived in my mail this morning. From the NMRA Member's Only store. -- Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario, Canada Life Member NMRA Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA Member Bird Studies Canada O

Stumbled on this in a search, never read this discussion from 2001 before, including someone claiming ‘Keith’ had never been there the night of the final operation of the G&D, even though he had just

As best I can determine we have all the old messages in the archive, which you can access by clicking on Messages and then displaying by Topic or Message. Topic is the default. Then you can search. Th

I spent some time scanning today, I will announce here when the web sites are updated. For now:

We conclude my 1964 visit to John's G&D with two overall photos showing the extent of his excellent scenery. John loved his bridges and five are evident in the first photo. That's my United "Prairie K

I also have an older Epson Perfection 1200 scanner from my Windows XP days, (complete with transparency scanning unit) which wouldn't work on Windows 7 or 10, but I found a work around in installing a

When I said we were limited to 1GB of photo storage, I had forgotten that unlike many of the other groups I administer, this one is a premium group with 20 GB of storage allowed and not 1GB. Our photo

The latest iPhones have AMAZING photo quality, a friend has an iPhone X and when I compare it with photos from my iPhone 6 I am shocked! And I think my 6 is pretty darn good. Still, a dedicated slide

Just a note to let you all know what I found out about not getting Bob's message containing photo 13. It was rejected by my email and is shown as "bouncing" on groups.io. This can be serious as groups

Gorgeous work, Bob! Thanks for sharing, Bob Friddle  Tom... Yes, thirteen images is correct. I'm happy to share with the group. Like many of us, I migrated through various stages of modeling. First h

The current issue of “O Gauge Railroading” (February/March 2020) has an article “Andy Romano’s Big Little Railroad”. It is a 3-Rail layout but not like most as it is loaded with weathering and detail.

Here are two more excellent scenery shots of the G&D. The first includes the "burn" area and the second the narrow gauge on the high line. The United D&RGW L-131 is mine and, yes, it did run just fine

Was renewing my membership and had a look around the store. Says it was added today...not the Bulline stock car? Not the G&D bobber caboose? NO PICTURE... Will try to call tomorrow...

Back in the early months of 1964, I spent an evening with John enjoying the G&D. Being his usual gracious self, John allowed me to photograph the layout and operate a few of my locomotives on the G&D.

Two more G&D images. A pair of stone arch bridges in the first and a good example of John's forced perspective modeling in the second. Five more images to go tomorrow. Enjoy! Bob Hogan

I took the liberty of assembling these into a single PDF, which might make for convenient viewing. Enjoy!

The first photo shows the now famous original Gorre engine house and depot area while the second photo is a good example of John's floor-to-ceiling scenery in the canyon area. Bob Hogan