Category: Pacific Electric Box Motor Yard
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What Lance Just Said: Great Modeling Ain’t About Rivet Counts Or Color Chip Matches
Lance Mindheim’s blog, and for that matter, his books and clinics at model railroad gatherings, are a reliable source of modeling insight and wisdom. Lance recently posted this nugget: As much as we all strive for prototypical accuracy, the lion’s share of visual impact is delivered by composition, color strategy,…
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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…
Further Up Dunes Junction 