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Call It Done: Calumet(ish) Tower of the 80s and 90s
Decades-old conventional wisdom from the old model railroad heads of my youth drove me to pick up a decades-old IHC interlocking tower kit at a local train show recently. Some googling quickly revealed that the old heads were more or less wrong—the IHC kit is certainly not a scale replica…
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On My Bench: Plain-ifying A Classic Plastic Kit
My first semester of university teaching is done, and I’m able to return to the workbench in earnest. What’s happening now: simplifying the lines of an ancient injection-molded HO structure kit, with the aim of making it more evocative of the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana. Erroneous folk knowledge from…
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Call It Done: GE Boxcab #87 of the Calumet Belt
Decades before Calumet Belt acquired big mainline freight electrics like E-44 4402 and its fleetmates, when most of Calumet Belt’s contemporaries were still dragging steel and related commodities with steam, electrics like Calumet Belt 87, a General Electric boxcab, were quietly and cleanly servicing the mills and refineries of northwest…
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Further Up Dunes Junction 