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As I've mentioned elsewhere here, I'm attempting to more firmly root my layout in the 1930s, and have sold quite a bit of stuff that's "too modern" for my layout. While there will be more to sell, I'm also re-painting and re-lettering a lot of other cars, mostly to get a more suitable lettering...

I have been invited to act as a moderator on the forum of a friend, so it is with some regrets that I relinquish my Moderator duties here, as crowdgather does not allow their Mods to act in the same capacity elsewhere. I do intend to stay on here as a Member, though, so you've certainly not...

... to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Who cares? The pig ran away when she saw the needle and thread anyway. ;):p Instead, I decided to try to upgrade an old Varney metal boxcar that I've had since I started in HO scale 50 years ago. It began life as a NYC car, in Pacemaker grey and...

It looks like Barney Secord has been at it again! :eek:;):-D Wayne

It looks like the situation with railfans is really getting out of hand, as these photos, taken at the Kiski Junction RR, in Schenley, PA. illustrate. (The photos were taken from the fan's confiscated camera.) While KJRR GM Charlie Bowyer walks ahead to throw a switch, an intrepid railfan...

Congratulations to Squidbait on reaching 1000 posts! bounce7aussiebounce7 Wayne

...to railohio on reaching 1,000 posts. :eek::eek::grin: balloon6:excited1:balloon6:excited1: Wayne

...to David (60103) for attaining 5,000 posts. balloon6balloon6Thanks, David, for sharing your knowledge and for your comments and insight over the years. Here's to another 5,000. aussie (Posts, not beers!) ;):-D:-D Wayne

"basic", as in "basic transportation". "B" is also for "Bee", as in "the Bee", a good example of basic transportation: The Grand River & Northern Lake Erie, known commonly as the Erie Northshore, bought her to augment their locomotive-drawn passenger service. When she first buzzed into town...

Here are a few "new" cars that I've recently acquired and upgraded for my layout. All have had their cast-on grabirons shaved off and replaced with metal ones (done like this). I also added some re-weigh and re-pack data to more accurately date them to my late '30s layout. The first three...

...and if not at the Ritz, at least it's an improvement over their usual duties of pulling way freights. It's an excursion train, out of Mount Forest, for the employees of the Tuckett Tobacco Company, and these two old girls are all dolled-up for the occasion. As the train rolls through the...

...on grabirons. I'm in the process of re-equipping my railroad with rolling stock suited to a late-'30s time frame, so the '50s stuff is being sold-off or repainted in earlier paint schemes. To replace the cars sold, I'm buying new kits of cars appropriate to the era, and even some (gasp...

Here's a little something that's still in the "experimental" stage. While doing some yard work, I came across some blossoms from an oak tree. These are basically long, flexible, and very fine strands with very tiny blossoms attached along their lengths. What got my attention was a cluster of...

Here's a photo of a loco that I built just recently for my good friend cn nutbar: You can see lots more photos of the construction process here: Building Beeg Boy Wayne

…and Union Pacific fans shouldn’t get too excited, as that is neither a spelling error nor anything to do with that road’s largish articulated locos. Several years ago, my good friend cn nutbar was musing about the possibility of having me create a model of one of the CNR’s T-3-a locomotives...

While I don't model logging operations, I thought that this picture that I found while scanning some old photos might be of interest to some of those who do. I took it in 1963, near North Bay, Ontario, on the property of a smaller logging/sawmill operation. Sorry, but I have no other info on...

Here's a shot of CNR U-1-f Mountain 6060, somewhere near Yager, Ont., in the Niagara peninsula. In the summers in the mid-'70s, CN substituted this loco and train for the usual RDCs on the Toronto to Niagara Falls mid-day run. This was on Wednesdays and Saturdays only, for the usual fare. For an...

I was going to put this in the recently revived "Show us your caboose" thread, but thought that modellers of the CPR might be interested to see this old photo. I took the photo in September 1963, in North Bay, Ontario, mainly because I'd never seen a CPR caboose like the one in the centre. The...

Grand Valley Consolidation 25 has been cooling her heels at Port Maitland for over a half hour. She was late into Lowbanks, the previous station, by 20 minutes, and late out by another 10, so she's already late by an hour for her arrival at the TH&B interchange/carfloat operation on the other...

Erie Northshore Mikado 634, on a coal drag with sister 632, is in the hole as the morning mixed behind Grand Valley Mogul 34 rolls into Lowbanks. Wayne