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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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Trainspotting in the UK, June 2025
My spouse and I recently spent a week in the UK, partly for business, and partly for pleasure. We attended a rail safety conference in York, which took place in UK’s National Railway Museum. Here are some photos from the museum, and also from a field technical visit hosted by…
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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…





