You may have seen a few new websites appearing over on the left; but I have come across enough of them that they deserve a post to highlight them as well:
Ogden Brothers Trains - blog and related family of websites.
Updated multiple times a week. These two brothers, James and Steven, have been blogging for a while, but I discovered them only recently. They offer a variety of posts: profiles of famous passenger trains, reviews of model railroad products, explanations of railroad slang, and vignettes of modern railroading thanks to James' job as a conductor for the BNSF in Montana. Definitely worth a visit - anyone interested in trains is going to find something worth reading there!
Idaho's Panhandle Railroad, by Matt Sugerman.
Occasionally updated blog, chronicling Matt's modeling of the Camas Prairie RR in the 1960's; recommended for anyone with an interest in the Camas Prairie, or anyone interested in how railroads operated in the Northwest in the 1960's. Railroading then was a different beast - 100 car trains, but loaded with logs... here, modern and ancient railroading met!
Pacific Northwest Prototype Modeling (UP in the PNW)
Occasionally updated.This blog focuses on the Union Pacific's branchlines in eastern Washington and northern Idaho in the late 1960s and 1970s. So far the focus has been on boxcars and grain operations.
Updating 1-2 times a month. A new model railroad blog, set in the Pend Oreille Valley. Looking froward to this one.
Official blog of the Forest History Society, updated 2-4 times a month. If you have an interest in forestry, forest management, or logging, this is worth a visit; one of the things I have enjoyed reading about is the various mascots of forest fire prevention programs - Idaho's "DON'T BE A GUBERIF' road stencils needs to show up on a layout somewhere.
New website for the museum, dedicated to the rail history of the Inland Northwest.
It's a good time to be a train nerd; a time of plenty if ever there was.
