Here's a couple of pictures of a recent project, something that for me was quite a stretch. This is a Bachmann USRA 0-6-0, their basic train set...
This is a Bachmann USRA 0-6-0. The cast on detail was removed and replaced with Cal-Scale brass parts. The plastic tender wheels were replaced...
Hmmmm.... I guess I am a bit weird in my technique. I use a hot glue gun, and on the high setting at that, with the extruded foam insulation...
I have a mine on the railroad owned by the Sherman Coal Company. Because, if Mr. Peabody can have a coal company (www.peabodyenergy.com), why...
Yeah, sure it's 1:220.... maybe in some scale from an alien planet where the the alien foot equal 220 of our feet. Sven, you really have to stop...
I still have the Varney Docksider that was in the train set I received at about the age of 6 or 7 in the late 1950's. It still runs, sort of....
I don't have a picture of it online anywhere, but one of the coal mines on my railroad (built from the Walthers New River Mine kit) is lettered...
I've airbrushing craft paint (mostly "Delta Ceramcoat") for some years. I mostly use it for weathering but have sprayed it on structures also. I...
It's great to see the picture of Sierra RR #3, looking alive and well. I did a quick internet lookup after seeing the picture - the article said...
Russel, Thanks for posting the switchstand pic. For modeling purposes, pictures like it are pure gold! Even with the internet is can be...
There's a recommendation that you can improve your modeling by using prototype photos as inspiration. On Trainboard, we don't need no prototype...
Hopefully the metal is still in good shape. Sometimes the older zinc (Zamac?) castings would sort of rot after many years. I think an initial...
A freelance shortline that interchanges with a modeled prototype makes sense to me in one critical way. The shortline will not have that much...
Railmix, An update on the caboose PM A909 - She is now one of the regular caboose fleet at SRI, one of three that makes every run of the North...
Ohhh! That car... Oops! If I remember rightly, the blue sedan is also an old Life-Like (pre-Walthers) that they sold under their...
Candy, That's a Proto-2000 Single Door 50 foot boxcar assembled from a kit. It's from back before Walthers bought out Life-Like. Here's a kit...
Here's one I put up on Railimages last week. A Mikado pulls the daily turn into Clarksville on the Rochester and Richmond. Locomotive is an...
This is an Athearn USRA Mikado, originally an undec model, painted and lettered for the Rochester and Richmond.
And label the wires also. Self-stick paper tags folded around the wire works, or use a small piece of masking tape. Make up a code for the labels...
