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Renewed Interest, New Direction

Tue, 2010-11-02 06:55 — Todd Evans

Amazingly, I see that my thoughts on what scale I would like to persue as I slowly got back into the hobby was a posting I made nearly two years ago. Since that post I have welcomed the arrival of a grandson into my life. He has a brother on the way due around Thanksgiving. I have come to accept the fact that in my current economic circumstance and work schedule I can get the most pleasure from the hobby by creating something for my grandson to enjoy and not necessarily starting the dream layout. I have put my desire to go in the direction of N scale on hold for now.

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Vintage Washington Northern Advertising

Sat, 2010-10-16 12:08 — caboose14

Spent some time digging through the Washington Northern historical archives this morning and found a couple of period ads preserved.  Quite the find!    (It was fun to put together)

First a travel poster from October of 1962.

Then we have a magazine print ad that featured GM Motors Electromotive Division as it appeared in magazines on the west coast in 1947.

The holidays are finally over and now I can work on my Hudson & Hartford.

Mon, 2010-10-04 05:03 — feldman718

Well it's October and the holidays are now over so I have both time and opprtunity to work on the Hudson and Hartford.

Train Ferry Solano

Mon, 2010-09-27 04:39 — feldman718

I am in the midst of reading the article on the Train Ferry Solano that appears in the October 2010 issue of NMRA Magazine and I am stunned. But I am not stunned enough not to write anything about it or my impressions of this model.

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Chainsaw II - Postmortem Pictures

Thu, 2010-09-23 03:25 — Scarpia

I was looking through some things this afternoon, and found these  - some final shots of the Chainsaw II layout.

Enjoy!

Building Car Floats for the Hudson and Hartford and other stuff

Mon, 2010-09-20 10:26 — feldman718

I have seen some photos of self propelled car floats and come up with some descriptions for them as could have been developed for use on the route between New Jersey and Brooklyn. I have also found it necessary to change some of the basic parameters for the layout as well.

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Report: PNR convention in Seattle

Thu, 2010-09-16 21:53 — joef

MRH is at the NMRA Pacific Northwest Regional convention in Seattle right now. One of the better-known modelers from this region is Paul Scoles. We attended his scenery clinic today and it was delightful and informative.

Paul put some paving sand on a piece of pink foam that he had painted a dark green-brown. He used wet water to shape the scene's terrain not unlike how you did sand castles as a kid. Then he soaked it with glue ...

Model-Railroad.TV

Thu, 2010-09-16 09:39 — feldman718

I recently ran across this website and I rhink it's worth a look. It may or may not be threat to thsi site, but if used a suplement it could be quite valuable.

I would suggest that you take a look. You can find it just by typing:

Model-Railroad.TV

into your browser. If you want to subscribe it will cost you $45.00 a year.

I am not in any way associated with this site except as a subscriber.

I don't know where the stars of the films they show are located but the site owner is in the UK.

Irv

Building the Hudson and Hartford

Wed, 2010-09-15 04:12 — feldman718

I've been actually looking at what I've gotten done lately between times when I actually have to work for a living. I actually have more time to do this at the beginning of a semester than I have in the middle or the end despite Holidays which take up much of September. Still I do spend time reading the messages here and I enjoy them. This fits into my Monday/Wednesday teaching schedule since I have long breaks between classes in which to do this.


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