Sorry I haven’t posted here lately, as I’ve been busy with my eBay store, my Facebook page by the same name, and actually a new career that takes up quite a bit of my time! Recently I finished up a project that immediately sold on my eBay store, along with my ex-AN , now TASD […]

Again today I’m posting more details I’ve added to the modules since I last posted about these. Eventually as mentioned before, my goal is to make these modules look like a gritty, grimy industrial area you’d find on Penn Central in the seventies. Details definitely make a layout, as much as weathering and scenery. I […]

The P&LE boxcar is now finished as well. This car was done by first spraying a light coat of green that matched the car to lighten the car a bit and take away some of the shine this Athearn car had out of the box. The next step was several brown color washes to dirty […]

This car actually is finished as well, but for lack of time at the moment I’ll simply post a photo of this project car. This car as finished will also go up on my eBay store this weekend. Story will follow how I did this one:

The AN boxcar I was working on is now finished with a photo below plus a photo of the prototype: This one will go up on my eBay store this weekend!

A recent car for my fleet was completed over the holiday break, this one an ExactRail 50’ PC&F single door boxcar lettered for Western Pacific. Shown below is the car new in box purchased off eBay: I decided to purchase and keep this car as the stencil on the side says when empty return to […]

I’m almost finished with this Walther’s 50’ ACF boxcar lettered for Apalachicola Northern. I decided to make this a former AN car, now TASD 9118 which I had a photo of shown here, as well as the AN car new in box: I achieved the dirty orange color with rust and brown washes that had […]

Sorry for the lack of posting recently but I took a break during the holidays. Now back at it with these updates. I’ve been busy at work on the second module. First off, I ordered two pre-built and weathered Walther’s buildings, their McGraw Oil dealer to be used as a fuel and gasoline dealer, and […]

Here is a recent addition to my fleet, purchased off eBay. This car in my opinion is a nicely weathered car. Below are two photos:

Back from taking a break, today I’m covering the addition of another small module. This module was the smallest module on my original layout, measuring 2ft wide by about 3 ft long. I didn’t have as much room as I thought between the first module and our closet so I had to turn the new […]

I’ve just completed another project, this one an Athearn Genesis “primed for grime” Golden West Service boxcar. This guy took about a week to complete. The car has the usual underside weathering plus several layers of weathering on the sides and ends. I used washes, powders, acrylic paint, and rust texture on this model. Photos […]

Coming soon to the “new” layout is another module section I had from the old layout, a 2×2 ft extension. This small module section had the mainline from Dickinson yard coming through it, plus a siding into Electro-Met, a company in Alloy, WV. These tracks on the 2 ft module should connect with the current […]

I recently was given two HO scale cars to do for a local modeler. This client models modern day, which means plenty of rust and grime on an older boxcar and plenty of graffiti. The second car I was asked to weather is a Cargill hopper. This modeler requested plenty of grime and graffiti on […]

Here’s a quick little project I was able to do in one day, in between projects for clients. This Railbox car had been lightly weathered previously. This go round I simply applied a brown wash to the sides and while still wet, lightly dabbed some dirt colored powder onto the sides then evenly spread it […]

Today I thought I’d share a few photos of the module as it looks today. Tomorrow I have a package of Bachmann maintenance crew coming to add to the same figures already placed in Allied Chemical. Photos are coming once these additional figures are added. In the meantime a few more weeds have been added […]

A bit more weathering done on the module the last few days. Not only did I paint and weather the first set of four tanks posted previously, but I also finally covered up the fake brown plastic base they sit on. What I did was paint the base with white glue, then applied dirt from […]

Details definitely make a layout. Details set the tone and era for a layout. Details can create separate little scenes on a layout. That’s my intention with this module. It definitely isn’t much of a model railroad, but one must make do with what space you have. This past week I’ve been finding more details […]

Well, maybe not new layout, but perhaps new module! A lot of work put into the module today starting with cleaning all the track first off. All the buildings I needed are in place now, along with all the fencing and trees I’m going to need. I still need to glue down some ground cover […]

Finally here as in one module from my old layout! Today I was able to retrieve my one usable module that was part of my old layout from our storage facility. This was part of my Nitto, WV area which included a scrapyard, and Allied Chemical. I’ll probably put my Woodland Scenic’s old Sick N […]

While working on the C&NW open hopper, I pulled these two cars out of one train box to weather up for eBay. These two B&O 60’ auto parts boxcars are Walther’s cars, purchased many moons ago while at Caboose Hobbies. The cars had the roofs previously weathered by myself, and a bit of fading via […]