350.000 Gallons Steel Water Tank This is one of the standard features of the Union Pacific in the steam era. These tanks were everywhere on the system and iin various sizes. The 350.000 gallon type supplied the facilities at Cheyenne, WY with water and one of these is still standing at Harriman, Wy. I was …
I recently discovered my love for early passenger diesels. The Alco PA / PB locomotives are a great subject to modelling. These classy units in their distictive livery can be considered as the essence of ‘American railroading’ and what comes to mind for us Europeans. Since I model the UP and C&S, there is not …
The Fairbanks Morse Erie Built locomotives are around since 2003. The tooling is nice and I really wanted to run a set on my future layout. This is also the perfect test field of how to convert diesel locomotives to Proto:48. A couple of changes have to be made to turn these high rail racers …
I’ve started my first passenger train project – a revolutionary new concept of rail travel at the time – The Challenger, train #8 between Los Angeles and Chicago. I’m modelling the first section of the consist with it’s coaches and chair cars. Researching the Project These cars were built by Pullman Standard in 1937 and …
This Intermountain injection plastic kit is a real gem – super fine details such as grab irons, rivets and ice hatches make this kit a must have for all O-scalers who model the old days. I have decided to build this one with open hatches as they were used in ventilation service, when products were …
This Intermountain injection plastic kit needed some super detailing and back-dating into the steam era. You can still sense the modern era reporting marks “COTTON BELT” under the “St. Louis Southwestern” stenciling. It is my experience that overspraying with Tamiya grey primer is totally sufficient to make the lettering disappear. The rised caracter of the …
The rarest of the rare! The Precision Scale Co. Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 “Bull Moose” is maybe the rarest of all O scale models that can (not) be found. Only a hand full has been made. I was looking for this model for decades and suddenly she appeared in an online auction and I had to …
This is a Red Caboose O-scale 40′ flat car injection plastic kit that is still around on eBay and pops up from time to time at train auctions and shows. The kit is excellent, high quality and what we are used to get when a box is labeled “Red Caboose”. To make the plastic deck …
Recent test pieces of a river bed with resin water proof to become a realistic technique to model a realistic river. The white water will be three dimensional since I’ll add clear material over the basic wave that you see above. It’s a lot of fun to develop new techniques and I’ll make a video …
I’ve made this in-depth how-to video of a wire core model tree where I show step by step how to build really cool model trees. This particular build represents a maple tree in spring short after the leaves shot. I realize that many model railroaders build their trees to short – my goal is a …
