Category: Techniques
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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: 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…
Further Up Dunes Junction 