It’s early morning in the community of Addyston Ohio. The smell of pancakes, bacon and eggs from the local diner mixes with the smell from Monsanto Chemical fills the air. It’s not much after dawn when we get to work on the Penn Central. With the thermoses of coffee in hand, Fred, myself, and Jimmy […]

Arrived today, the Tangent PRR gondola. Wheels, trucks, and underside weren’t painted or weathered but are now! Weathered the underside with three colors of acrylics plus black/grey pigment to simulate built up grime. ACI plates added as well:

Well, another shift back on the railroad, this time first trick. Today it’s Charlie, Jimmy and I handling the switching. Today we’re switching cars into Sullivan scrap, Armitage Furniture, the team track, and Stephen’s Grocery distributors. Another local out of Riverside dropped off these cars to us overnight. Today we’re switching two gons into Sullivan […]

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

Here’s another story today from my time on the Indiana and Ohio railroad. There is a crossing on the line over to Monroe, Ohio right next to I would guess the largest flea market in Ohio called Traders World. This crossing is on state highway 63 which runs from Interstate 25 over to Lebanon, Ohio […]

This weekend wrapped up yesterday with a pretty good spring train show. I’m surprised several well known manufacturers were not there, such as Athearn for example. Good to see three people I used to work with at Caboose Hobbies plus being able to chat with Michelle from the Colorado Model Railroad Museum, Chris Lane from […]

Coming soon, this Tangent PRR 52′ gondola

A two day break here as I stop to attend the Rocky Mountain Train Show. I’ll be working the booth of The Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. Link here to the show: https://rockymountaintrainshow.com/Default.aspx

It’s now early in the morning with dawn breaking as we’re finishing up with Monsanto. The photos below show our moving the cars off the holding track to the loading/unloading track: When we had finished that task, 5628 shoves the two inbound tank cars down to end of track for us to take off and […]

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

The following is a tale from my days on the Indiana and Ohio railroad, this story taking place when I was their track inspector. I one day was inspecting the line up to Lebanon, Ohio, and was just north a bit from a spot called Hageman Jct, an original crossing of the PRR line that […]

A huge thank you to all the new subscribers, followers, and views the past three days, I greatly appreciate it! I know on some websites much like YouTube that owners receive income based on the number of viewers and or subscribers. I don’t make a penny as I’ve never signed up for monetary gain…..

As I posted in the Facebook group I am moving everything to this website after my podcast on May 2nd. I’ll still have The Weathering Depot Instagram account and I may open an account on X for The Weathering Depot as well. This will be a much better set up all around for me as […]

Here we are on third trick last night as Jimmy, Charlie, and I are on 8806 switching out Monsanto along the Ohio River. Because of the area industry tracks loaded up, this job is going to take quite awhile, tis why this will get in two parts. First, GP7 5628 is bringing in three tank […]

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

Yep, it’s slow as molasses right now in the weathering game. Hopefully it’s the season or time of year when a lot of model railroaders are outside enjoying the weather or on vacation….

Here’s a project finally completed and installed! Scaled down and printed by a local FedEx store, these look great! Many thanks to FedEx 👍

It’s dusk in Cincinnati along the Ohio River as we’re working several industries. First up we watch the local crew from Riverside bring in one gondola for Sullivan scrap and an N&W insulated boxcar for Stephen’s Grocery. This crew first shoves the boxcar down against us in 8806, then spots the gondola: Fred, Jimmy, and […]

Join me on May 2nd as I’ll be on The Train Talk Media podcast with Chuck Geiger discussing my weathering and possibly the layout! Time TBA…..

Today the local out of Riverside has brought us quite a few inbound cars. Looking at the waybills shows a gondola for Sullivan scrap, three tank cars for Monsanto Chemical, an Evergreen boxcar for the team track, and a WP boxcar of paints and stains for Armitage Furniture. Previously yesterday the local brought out a […]