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Category: Calumet Belt

• Calumet Belt Finished Models Techniques

  

  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…

  April 4, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  First Weathering on Calumet Belt 4402

  March 17, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Last Wet Decals on 4402

  March 15, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  Fourteen Year Old Me

  March 10, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  Calumet Belt Grungy Black

  February 24, 2026
• Calumet Belt Scale Modeling – Model Railroading Connection Techniques Work In Progress

  

  My Proto-Freelancing Venture Takes Its First Steps

  Primer and decidedly un-Pennsy details applied, now for major colors. This ancient brass Alco Models E44 was purchased for peanuts and fitted with a smooth Bowser/Stewart C628 drive. Now it will be road power for my new prototype-freelance project, Calumet Belt. Long live electric railroading in the diesel age!

  February 23, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  South Shore GP7 Done Save For Couplers

  January 25, 2026
• Calumet Belt Scale Modeling – Model Railroading Connection Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Decal Bashing

  January 20, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: Ongoing South Shore GP7 Metamorphosis

  January 19, 2026
• Calumet Belt Techniques UK 7mm Work In Progress

  

  On My Bench: E44 Electromechanicals

  January 14, 2026