Category: Techniques
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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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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!
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Kitbodged, Good-Enough HO South Shore GP7
At nearly the exact tween-age moment I started to make connections between the railroad books and magazines I read and the real railroads around me in my home Calumet region of Northwest Indiana—“the Region” to locals—my favorite local railroad was undergoing a major change. The Chicago, South Shore, and South…
Further Up Dunes Junction 