Here we are in August 2020! Share your latest workbench progress. Let's see what you have been building!

Eric

It's that time again!  Sorry, I'm outta town and can't photograph this certain locomotive that would be just perfect in this category!  Which loco, you ask?  It's a secret!

I am thinking of modeling a Class 3 railroad during the mid 40's-mid 50's, and I was wondering where they would get their motive power.  The railroad is set in Colorado (with a potential partner-railroad extending the network down to Arizona via trackage rights) and I was wondering where it would get it's equipment.  I know that later Class 3 railroads got their locomotives almost exclusively second-hand, but I want to model steam AND first generation diesel on this short-line railroad, and since the earliest first generation diesels (excluding early yard switchers of

This is the sixth entry to the "Please show us" series and will be focusing on non-articulate steamers with a four-wheel lead truck and no trailing truck (excluding the 4-4-0 which we discussed previously).  As previously mentioned, this sixth entry to the series will be posted outside of the blog format.  It will also determine whether or not I continue the series.