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Weathering with acrylic washes: basic technique
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Saturday, March 16, 2024
Repainting a GS-4 tender
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I have an all-black Broadway Limited HO scale model of a Southern Pacific 4-8-4 locomotive, Class GS-4. That is how these engines were paint...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
REA express reefers, Part 2
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In the first post on this topic, I briefly summarized the history of the Railway Express Agency or REA, and showed examples of some of the c...
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Rescuing an Athearn metal tank car
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Some years ago at a swap meet, I happened to spot a derelict Athearn metal tank car, with a badly broken underframe. But it looked fairly go...
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Express reefers from REA
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The Railway Express Agency, or REA, was an outgrowth of a number of prior express companies, dating back to the 19th century’s days of stage...
Monday, March 4, 2024
Understanding bridges
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Some years ago, I co-authored with my late friend Larry Kline an article about prototype railroad bridges: how they work, how the prototypes...
Friday, March 1, 2024
A new vinegar tank car
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Vinegar tank cars, made from wood, were unusual, but not rare, cars in prototype service. Vinegar is in essence mild acetic acid, and corros...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Shake ’n’ Take Seaboard box car, Conclusion
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The Seaboard box car which was the 2020 “Shake ’n’ Take” project at the Cocoa Beach Prototype Rails meeting that year, a model project desig...
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