Another work day as our crew along with the help of the local crew on GP7 5628, gets to work switching the industrial area in Sedamsville and Addyston. Today our crew is myself as brakeman, Jimmy as conductor, and Fred as engineer as we fire up 8806. Today we need to pull an empty reefer […]

Here is this week’s layout photo from the original Hitop branch:

Today we switch out Monsanto during first trick. Gathering up our coffee thermoses Charlie, Dan, and I head over to our regular locomotive 8806 and fire her up. Today we’re also taking the two empty tank cars out of McGraw fuel and oil. The local with GP7 5628 has come caboose light out of Riverside […]

Well, my Paasche airbrush of many years finally bit the dust several days ago, with both the needle, o ring that the aircap screws up against, and a cracked nozzle all conking out. I’ve ordered replacement parts and should be back up and weathering next Wednesday, so stay tuned for updates on these projects. I […]

As I’m unfortunately taking a break temporarily from weathering with my airbrush parts worn out, I decided to weather two sidings on the layout. Starting with the team track, I took some Vallejo light gray acrylic paint and drybrushed the gray on random ties. I followed this up with some dark earth pigments by MiG […]

Work has begun on 4 of 8 BNSF covered hoppers. More photos coming as work progresses!

I’m always looking for more communication work to do! I’ve pretty much gotten away from weathering locomotives for various reasons and want to concentrate on rolling stock. From light weathering to heavy, if you want that one or more special car(s) to stand out on your layout, just click on the contact tab to see […]

Here is this week’s layout photo from the original Hitop branch:

For all the new visitors, here’s a few photos of where I do all my weathering work plus where my layout is, all within my den:

Another story from my days on the Indiana and Ohio railroad. During my last year with the railroad as track inspector I was inspecting the Mason Ohio to Lebanon Ohio line one day during the first week of August. This was the line that the railroad at that time ran their own tourist train between […]

Our crew is back to work this morning switching out the inbound cars the local left for us. Today’s crew is Fred as engineer, myself as brakeman, and Jimmy as conductor. After grabbing breakfast and coffee at the diner we head over to fire up old 8806. Our first order of business is to pull […]

So in this post I’ll be showing the steps I took to weather one of the latest cars I finished and sold on eBay. I have to say this is probably one of the best cars I’ve done. To start off with, this car had three or four layers of weathering mediums on the car, […]

A huge thank you tonight to Chuck Geiger of Train Talk Media podcast for having me on the podcast. Really enjoyed being on!

Here is this week’s photo from the original Hitop branch:

Today’s local has arrived from Riverside yard this morning with another string of inbound cars for the industries in Addyston, including a rare road caboose on the rear end:

I’ll be on the podcast this Saturday morning May 2nd at 10 AM Mountain time, 12 noon Eastern. Be sure to tune in….!

Today’s an off day from the railroad but being from the local area, I’m down at the diner eating lunch when I notice our other crew has delivered a little unusual car to the team track. It turns out a local area building supply/lumber company out along River Road named Marsh and Truman Lumber has […]

Everyone will see two changes coming soon to the website. One is you will start to see more about the layout operations, plus more weathering work here soon. The other change is to make up for the monetary loss from the Facebook group you’ll start to see ads with my posts here soon. This advertising […]

A bit of work on the layout today as I enlarged the main road/street into three of the industries. Installed several of the old wood crossings as apparently PC had to work with what they had.

This week’s photo from the original layout: