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Over a year ago, I decided to try to make my Bachmann 2-8-0 look more like my Oriental Limited C-9, and quite frankly, there are a lot of little changes… As you can see from the above picture, the Bachmann (below) is larger, the sand dome is in the wrong […]

Finally getting back to the Bachmann 2-8-0

November 28, 2021 in Details / Model locomotive by John

A buddy of mine who lives in Chandler was kind enough to print out a few wig wags for me. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4043395/files I used some really old Floquil Old Silver that is still good. About the time they were just about dry, my Great Dane walks by the table and his […]

Scratch built N Scale interlocking tower

October 27, 2018 in Details / locals by John

I placed all six of the Model Power bay window cabeese into a quart Mason jar full of 91% rubbing alcohol to strip the paint. The silver on the roofs came off with ease, and the blue lettering took a little more coaxing. Surprisingly, Model Power spent the money to […]

plucking the cabeese

August 10, 2016 in Details by John

It started just over a year ago, Joe D’Amato at Micro Trains asked me to go to the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler to shoot a derelict old Maintenance of Way car with three doors on the sides and an end that opened the entire width of the car. SPMW […]

The MOW Horse Car…..part 1

May 1, 2016 in Details by John

Modeling the Pacific Electric in N Scale