I was recently given this to paint:

   

   

I discussed the paint job with the owner. He wants the car painted like Canadian National's 1954- 1962 scheme.

   

I have both the paint and the decals for the project but I've never painted a brass car before. From the looks of it it has a clear coat from the factory since there is no sign of tarnish or oxidization. I suppose I can just paint directly over the current finish, possible scuffing it slightly to give the paint a bit of 'tooth'?

Let's take a ride on the Kiski Junction Railroad.     
Charlie

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Hi everyone, I've been slowly working at building this kit from Scale Structures called "Dorothy's House" kit #1125.
I bought this kit decades ago, but finally got around to building it.
What inspired me to finally build this kit, is my 3 year old grandchild Brynnlee.
So I'm calling it Brynnlee's House. I wanted her to have it as a future keepsake of what her grandfather spent so much his spare time doing(building models).
I also decided to detail the inside of this Victorian looking house with period details.
My kit did not include the interior details, so I had to buy those as an extra to add to this house.
I wanted to make one wall removable so that you could see most of the details that will be added to the interior.
I remember in the early 70's as a kid in grade school seeing SS Ltd. new line of Fezziwig's Furniture adds in the model railway magazines.
I thought those details were amazing to my young 10 year old eyes, and thought it would be so cool to one day when I was older build something using them.
Well that day has finally come!
This kit comes with a lot of cast metal details on it's own, never mind the extra interior details that I'm adding.
It also requires you to model the interior details like wallpaper window & door trim before you build the entire exterior.
I also plan to add interior lighting to this stately home, so that adds another thing I have to think about while building this kit.
Anyways here are some photos showing some of the progress that I have made so far.
You can see what this house will eventually look like in the B&W photo shown on the instructions.

   


The kit includes some printed on paper brick sheeting, which I switched out for some styrene brickwalls which are then glued onto cardstock wall panels.

   

Here's a couple of pics showing more interior walls added and more interior details.

   

The second floor and remaining exterior walls will be added once I have all of the first floor details in place.

   

I will run the magnet wires for the lighting between the cardstock floor and the wooden scribed floor that I will be laying on to of the cardstock floor.
The wires will run over to the far exterior wall out through a hole and down the hollow cast chimney on that wall.

   

Most of the details on the first floor are now done, I'm just starting to now install the lighting for the first floor.

   

   

   

The second floor will show a bathroom & bedroom above where the kitchen & dining room are.
The exterior wall on the side where these rooms are located will be the wall that is removable.
I will update you as I progress, thanks for having a look and for your interest in this project.

Greg

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Circa 1966, PRR coal Train     
Charlie

They recently announce a massive data breach where there were over 2.9 billion listings of personal data. There is a website that you can check to see if you were breached and I'll guarantee you that you were. I saw my name a number of times at several addresses that I lived or worked at plus PO box addresses where I got mail. This included birth dates, phone numbers and SS numbers. From what I read, they tried to sell the info on the dark web for a million dollars, but had no takers so they released it free. Very scary. To check how many times you were listed, go to Pentester

BTW, you can look up anyone that you want as long as you have their birth year. My search showed over a dozen entries for myself and a bunch for others with similar names. This including the last two digits of my SSN, which were correct in every case as were phone numbers and addresses.

I'm sure there are many other breaches that have our personal info in, the Internet has made it very cushy for the criminals and I haven't a clue how to deal with it. Right now I have a letter from AT&T about a breach and I haven't dealt with them in decades, but they still had my personal info in their database.

WPMA-51 at Winslow.

Bruce

   

WPMA-29 at T&T Freezer.

Bruce

   

Hi,

I have still not finished my mexican layout in on30 but I will start in parallel a french CFD VIVARAIS at HOm scale in the  1940/1950 era.

It's a typical rural line at metric gauge. When I was young ant today too I use to ride on this train that still exist as touristic line. It's mountainous train with small halt or railways station. I Will do 3 small scene in radio chassis of the years 1940 / 1950 and the radios will be link together.

s-l1600 by franck combe, sur Flickr

IMG_5688 by franck combe, sur Flickr

IMG_5687 by franck combe, sur Flickr

IMG_5685 by franck combe, sur Flickr

I found these in the Amarillo Railroad Museum and I don't know what they are.

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3.  This appears to be a prototype for a Kadee magnet.  The museum had several of these between the rails.

   

Tom