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It was a good run, but Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Valley Railway—the “Route of the Hazelnuts”—has come to the end of the line. The one-eighth scale riding railway has been told it needs to vacate its current location and find a new home. The AVR was founded...

Weller Beer is the first named industry on the layout. I’ve decided to name them after childhood places and streets in my hometown of St. Catharines, Ontario. Weller Beer is named after Port Weller, the Lake Ontario entrance to the Welland Canal. It...

The Gateway Spur is back! Or maybe it’s more correct to say I’m back with the Gateway Spur. The layout never went away. But it has been dormant since March when the pandemic started. Somehow, I just lost interest in the hobby as the first wave of the...

As I wrote earlier, this pandemic has got me down. It's hard to work on the layout, or come up with fresh content for the blog. But I have lots of interesting content from years past which could be shared again, like this post from 2012. Enjoy! Another...

Like many other things during the pandemic, the Gateway Spur has been shut down. Unlike the real world, it wasn’t loss of traffic or customers or supplies or even to prevent the transmission of the virus. It was simple loss of interest and energy....