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Big Audio

DCC sound is great – but the audio quality is limited by the size of the speakers. Audio is pretty darned analogue: In general, the larger the speaker surface, the better the sound. Here’s proof:

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Here’s a factoid that confuses my friends from southern Ontario: Saskatchewan doesn’t have an IKEA. So while I was in Calgary last month to talk about layout design, I made a pit stop on the way out of town and grabbed a few things that only IKEA seems t...

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Boxes and gons

Earlier this month I took delivery of a few more S scale freight cars, built for me by my friend Pierre Oliver.

CPR and GCW boxcars

The Canadian Pacific Railway boxcar is a Kaslo Shops kit for a PS-1. It has a resin body plus photo-etched details. The PS-1 was a common boxcar back in the era I model, but it hasn’t been well re...

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I look forward to getting back to Calgary again sometime soon. Even the 6.5 hours of highway driving through the Big Empty between here and there can’t hold me back!

I’m back from a long weekend in Alberta, where I had a wonderful visit with members of the Calgary Mo...

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I’ve been invited to speak at the Calgary Model Railway Society‘s Fall Mini Meet and AGM on October 5th – and I’ll use the opportunity to talk about the layout design issues one faces when choosing to model an obscure prototype in a niche scale.

My example will be my modelling of the href="https://themodelrailwayshow.com/niagara-electric...

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