Another Rare Tome

Research for the next locomotive project.

Crawford's Station WIP

The station at Crawford's in Twin Mountain, New Hampshire. 1:48 scale from plans in the August 1983 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. Present day Conway Scenic Railway colors. I just wanted to get a feel for the footprint and architectural elements.

Montrealler/Washingtonian

From left to right: A NYHNH Stainless steel sleeper, a PRR sleeper, and a CN sleeper. This train ran from Washington D.C. to Montreal across the PRR, NYHNH, B&M, CV, and CN.

Now Available

Printed by Tommy Armstrong Brick Engraving. These custom bricks have the Canadian National roadname used on their massive fleet of passenger cars from the early 1930s up to the adoption of the familiar CN wet-noodle logo we know today in 1960. The font is from the Canadian National Railways Historical Association, and printed across 22 studs of olive green bricks, it is approximately 1:48 scale or 8-wide. If anyone would like to order, I'll have some available. They're $9 a single set or $16 a pair plus shipping worldwide. Just contact me by Flickr Mail.

New Single-Sheath Boxcar Design

I wasn't entirely happy with my original single-sheath box design like on CV 40122. It was just too tall. However getting the wood panel effect on a 7-stud tall wall was quite a bit of a challenge and has stumped me for over a year. Inspiration hit me last night, and here's what I've come up with. This particular design is for a Great Northern 31000 series Pratt-Truss boxcar, which was challenging because of the black ends, but would be easily adapted to CV40122 and Rutland 7999 (ex-CN.) One big benefit is this design has a fraction of the internal structure of my previous designs which ended up weighing close to 1.3 lb.