Model Railroading: Bob's Basic & Mostly Credible Railroad

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June 7, 2008 -- Launched use of a centralized menu, which may have caused navigation problems until the launch was completed. After realizing that every time a change needed to be made, it involved changing the menus on some 48+ pages, Miss M felt a centralized menu was in order. It should be complete, but please notify me if you discover a broken link. The look of the menu did not change.

What did visibly change is the menu on this page. It has been streamlined to the new buttons already in use on the rest of the site, and has the blog added to it.

Updates in progress include:

* More tutorial pages
* Addition of the Blog to the main navigation menus
* Possibly still a little rework of "Back" and "Next" buttons
* Addition of more videos
* Creation of a new section of large photos

Please let us know about any problems with the site with the email link below... you never know, you might find something we hadn't noticed! Thank you.

Model Trains by Shaygetz: Rivarossi Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 Cab-forward

Pictured above is the Grand Dame of my fleet, a Rivarossi model of a Southern Pacific railroad 4-8-8-2 Cab-forward, a unique locomotive designed to relieve the crews as the locomotive would go thru the railroad’s notoriously long tunnels. By putting them in the front of the locomotive, the train crew no longer needed to lie on the cab floor sucking air thru a wet rag or oxygen mask. Rescued from a swap meet table for $25, unable to pull 5 cars up a 1.5% grade, what was once junk is now a finely tuned machine, DCC decoder equipped with an LED headlight and able to pull long freights around the club layout, hence “The Route of Redemption”.

Model Trains by Shaygetz: Rocket Car

And so the saga of the Basic & Mostly Credible Railroad begins. When I first came to the LORD in Oct. 1986, my model railroading was basically “plunk, plug and play”, a hobby of acquiring rather than creating. At the Lord’s leading, I donated my entire layout and left the hobby for almost 4 years. Reintroduced to it shortly after I married the beloved Miss M., I acquired a large lot of HO parts and pieces, the ground work for the hobby I practice and enjoy today. No longer bound to the idea that everything had to be prototypically accurate, the latest of the latest offerings from the best manufacturers and ever increasing prices, I now enjoyed the wit and whimsy, as well as the seriousness of the hobby as it played out in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Combined with a love and reverence for God and His Living Word, I pray you are blessed with what you see and hope you come back from time to time.

Many thanks to my Webmaster Luke for his help in putting this page together for me.

Blessings, grace and peace, BC

“The Route of Redemption”

John 14:5-6

Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.