Posts from May 2024

Mike Confalone’s Allagash Story eBooks

Do you want a good primer on how to model The Dead Season? Go read Mike’s books.

There is one tree, and it is dead, on the LIRR IS

Dead Season modeling.  Although I would love to follow this path, my layout’s chosen setting is an industrial area, totally devoid of trees, save one.  A dead one.   The Long Island Railroad Industrial service, or LIRR IS for short, is a small 1950’s era short line dedicated to servicing local mob owned businesses on a […]

Ian MacMillan’s Dead Season Inspirations

A selection of photos that I’ve taken that inspire my enjoyment of The Dead Season.

Ed Kapuscinski’s Conrail Windsor St Yard in December 1985 Layout

My old Windsor St layout was focused on the area around York PA on Conrail’s (somewhat fictional) NCR Line. It was set in December of 1985 and was torn down in November of 2018. For more coverage of this layout, you can check out my site Conrail1285.com.