Category: Finished Models
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Call It Done: Crooked Mountain Lines HO Box Car
I recently came across an old treasure in my stash of model railroad supplies, this National Model Railroad Association special-run Crooked Mountain Lines heritage box car. The Crooked Mountain Lines was the fictional home road of traction modeler Bob Hegge, who penned numerous articles in the 70s and 80s for…
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Call It Done: Static 00 Deltic, Another UK Souvenir
When I visited the UK National Railway Museum in York, UK in June for a rail safety conference, the UK-based attendees were understandably proud of their country’s rail heritage on display. While steam speed record holder Mallard overlooked the conference seating area, several of the UK rail officials and industry…
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Modern Guts and Finish For An Ancient HO Pacific Electric Box Motor
My Pacific Electric Express Yard project will need great looking and great running models of PE box motors in order to come to life. As fortune would have it, there are some excellent starting points for such great looking and running models of PE rolling stock. ‘Starting Points’ is doing…
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Introducing the Pacific Electric Express Yard
Fifty or so years after I first learned of the Pacific Electric and models of its cars and structures, I’m embarking on my next small layout project, the Pacific Electric Express Yard. My journey to the Express Yard—so far—has been a fun exercise in figuring out the mix between exciting…
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Call It Done: Peco Parkside O Gauge Fruit Van
I travel overseas from time to time with my spouse, and last month we visited the United Kingdom for a rail safety conference, which I wrote about for Trains.com. I often return from my overseas trips with model trains, so it was inevitable that some model train stuff might would…
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Call It Done: Tichy HO 40’ USRA Single-Sheath Box Car
I followed up the ore cars with another Tichy offering, something a little more utilitarian and usable in a variety of operational and layout situations: a bog-standard composite (wood and steel) 40-foot box car. The build was in some ways simpler than the ore cars, and in other ways, a…
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Call It (okay, them) Done: Tichy HO Ore Cars
Nearly all railroad models currently produced are offered completely finished. There are precious few model railroad kits in current production, and fewer yet produced in injection molded styrene—in other words, just a few model railroad kits that assemble like scale plastic model kits. Tichy Train Group more or less has…
Further Up Dunes Junction 