Columbia Railroad
(formerly Island Pond Railroad)

• Building a Backyard Railroad
• A Map of the Railroad
• Clearing the Line
• Survey After Clearing
• Tie Tutorial
• First Snow of 2003/2004 season
• The snow deepens
• The Ice Flood
• The Line Closes -- 1/25/4
• Ground Hog Day
• Winter at Night
• The Line Reopens! -- 3/14/4
• New Years Day -- 1/1/5
• Snowbound -- 1/9/5
• Snow Scenes -- 2/6/5
• Adventures in Bogland -- 2/10/5
• Lots of Snow -- 3/15/5
• Hurricane Wilma Arrives -- 10/25/5
• Granular Snow -- 4/5/6
• Removing the Roller Coaster -- 9/1/6
• The Gravel Spur and Northern -- 10/6/6
• The Ice Storm -- 1/19/7
• Winter Scenes -- 1/30/7
• A Cold Spring Day -- 3/23/7
• The Ice Storm -- 12/11/8
• The Loader Spur & Southern -- 6/13/10
• Tie Replacement -- 11/1/10
• After a Winter Rain -- 3/7/11
• The new Doghouse Spur -- 10/20/12
• The January 2015 Ice Flood -- 1/18/15

• Wheel and Rail Standards
• Lateral Axle Travel and/or Extra Track Gauge calculator

• Find a Live Steam Club in Your State.

• Find a Live Steam Club in Your Province.

• My Mikado (2-8-2) Steam Locomotive

• The Tender

• The NB1 4-Wheel Electric Switcher - IPRR #1

• The NB2 4-Wheel Electric Switcher - IPRR #2 (SOLD)

• My EMD F7A Diesel - Rock Island #118

• 3-Bay Hoppers - M&StL 66891 and C&NW 135285

• 34 foot Ballast Car - CRR #203

• Flat Cars - IPRR #101, 102, 103, 104

• 40 foot Ice-bunker refrigerator - SOO Line #39525

• 40 foot Boxcars - IPRR #301, #302, #303

• 50 foot Gondola - Rock Island #180043

• 40 foot Work Train Gondola - IPRR #201 (SOLD)

• Shorty Tank Car - Tropicana #12450

• Coil Car - Penn Central #754614

• Bay Window Caboose - WPRR #3

• Mid-South Live Steamers, Columbia, Tennessee - 5/4/6

• Wimberley Blanco and Southern - 9/25/5

• Ridge Live Steamers, Dundee, Florida - 2/25/4

• Waushakum Live Steamers, Holliston, MA - 8/23/3

• Finger Lakes Live Steamers, Marengo, NY - 5/18/2

• Apache Railway - McNary to Maverick, Arizona
• Another White Mountain Scenic Railroad photo page
• Worcester, Nashua, and Portland division of the Boston and Maine RR
  Between Windham, NH and West Windham, NH, abandoned in 1935

Other Links

• Burnet Gunfighters 3/6/4

• Railroad Rush Hour - the game

• My tribute to Wayne Wilson

• Read about Hazards and scale railroad safety