I recntly decided to take two Life-Like and Varney wood reefers that were in bad shape and to upgrade them drastically into 37ft GARX meat reefer. Yes, I had to scrap almost everything except the walls and everything else was rebuild from scratch. However, I really enjoyed the process. Brake gear was redone correctly, ice hatches made out of styrene and paper and several other details including a lot of hand punched rivets.

I certainly could have been less crazy about it, but I'm lately taking a lot of interest in doing freight car projects as correctly as I can. I have plenty of time to do so and find it extremely relaxing and rewarding. Once again the trick is to split the job into sub assemblies that can be done in one evening.









Matt

I hate passing along bad news. They are taking orders until Dec 1.
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WPMA-29 makes it's way through Chestnut Neck.

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I decided I'm going to model some freelance motive power. The railroad is Bergen East & Hudson located in Hudson and Bergen County in NJ. They'll operate on my Northern Branch layout (whenever I can start building it). The idea behind it is to get some variety on the layout. The story behind them is they have a contract with CSX to switch the smaller freight branch lines that CSX neglects in Hudson county and eastern Bergen county but do not operate on NJ Transit tracks. To get started, I'm going to use 2 Athearn Genesis Delaware & Hudson GP38-2s and pretend that CP Rail didn't get all of them and I really like the blue and grey paint scheme. I'd eventually like to add 1 or 2 MoW vehicles to the fleet, maybe a smaller switcher of some kind like an sw1500 and a shoving platform. One of the ex-D&H engines will have my daughters name and her birthday as the road number. Here's an idea what they'll look like.

Per request, I drew up an Illinois Central "Paducah" sand dome that can be 3-D printed on Shapeways:
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I'm a little surprised that such an item is not manufactured by the major detail parts suppliers as there seem to be many IC modelers out there. This was fun to draw up, and I hope it helps out those wanting to model IC steam.

On this day, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiegne, France. ~ Wikipedia

Veterans Day (renamed in 1954) is not to be confused with Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service.[1] It is also not to be confused with Armed Forces Day, a minor U.S. remembrance that also occurs in May, which specifically honors those currently serving in the U.S. military. ~ Wikipedia

With that said:

Shore River's North Job departs the Mannheim Yard with empty grain hoppers.

Bruce

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Hi guys! It’s sure been awhile, and I hope life has been kind to you in the meantime.

I have some major news, and that’s that after 5+ years, my mother's estate has finally been settled and we’ve sold the house!!!

I know I've been out of touch for a long time, and the fact is that I took my model railroad down because we were supposed to be selling the house 6 years ago. I feel bad it’s taken me so long to let you guys know what’s been up, because now I’m moving in less than a week!! Going to be a little more in the direction of downtown, but still a residential area, close to the lake, High Park, and the subway.

It’s a massive downsizing from a 5 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom apt but the good news is, there’s a 20 ft long garage, so I’m actually bringing all my train stuff with me for now. Packing it up I can’t help thinking how great it would be to do something with it, like some kind of shelf display with my streetcars. I’m thinking of selling off some of my outsized collection of locos and rolling stock, since I doubt I’ll be running any trains for the foreseeable future. Keeping my favourites of course! I thought of maybe getting a table at one of the shows next year.

Packing is hell, but I’m really looking forward to this move, as it’s going to bring a lot of closure. I’m excited, and a bit nervous i will confess, but only a little bit.

Cheers!
Val

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A high and wide extra move on the way to Tafftown. It consisted of 2 odd machines.    
While talking to the conductor he told us the one car contained a flux liquidizer     and the other contains a flux refurbisher and 3% reconditioner.     They are going to be stored in a warehouse up town. He had no idea what they were, but read what was on the waybills.
Charlie