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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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Call It Done: E-44 ‘Brick’ Tests the Calumet Belt Vision
Model railroading is all but unique among the model making hobbies for its tradition of blending fact with fiction—think prototype-based scale models of trains, but combined in imaginary ways, often running on imaginary or prototype-inspired rail lines. Longtime readers of my Up Dunes Junction and Sprue Pie With Frets blogs…
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