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A while back I started building one of the unpowered 1/25 scale AMT/Ertl models of the old 4-4-0 General, produced about 30 years ago. It is a nice kit, but I'm having some decal problems. The first two stripes on the tender went on well, but the third one broke, so I took advice and sprayed the rest of the decal sheet with clear gloss Krylon spray. This, of course made the decals thicker and the next stripe would not lay down properly, using Micro-Scale Micro-Set and Micro -Sol, the latter in
I enjoyed the nice article on the Greeley Freight Station Museum in the December 2008 Model Railroader. It certainly is a beautiful model railroad layout. I'm a believer in building model railroads in public museum settings as a way of teaching history, as opposed to the private club "playing with trains" aspect so often seen. Much of the general public has a latent fascination with model trains, even though most do not feel the need to have a model railroad. What I don't quite
Trackage is seldom sold directly from a major RR to a shortline. Typically, it is sold to a RR holding company that owns numerous other lines, under the 10901 exclusion, thus precluding the need for the class 1 to pay its displaced workers New York Dock protection. Intended in the initial writing of the Staggers Act to save short unprofitable pieces of track from abandonment, this exclusion was soon corrupted by the Reagan Administration to include much longer routes, thus putting thousands of longtime
I just finished a 30-year career yesterday and will have a good pension. For what it's worth, the CPR/D&H at Saratoga, NY was an excellent, and is still a good place to work, with good employees, at least half of whom like trains as a pastime. Best job and best people I've ever had the pleasure to work with. It will be a bit hard to gain seniority past the extra board now, but they are planning on hiring a couple of more classes. See the official CPR website. CPR is not the best organized
If it were me, I'd prefer to build a WWII themed layout for public display rather than my own home use. Is there a military museum near you? That might be a good location. With all the available European equipment and structures, it shouldn't be too difficult, and could be made modular if necessary. I think I'd build a bomb-damaged German railyard, that was still barely functioning among the chaos. Having spent some military time in the early 1970s in Germany, I often wondered what the
A few years ago, there was an award given to a person in the Kansas City area for his superdetail work on an Athearn rotary snowplow. The plow was detailed as one of the Union Pacific plows, the prototype of which was also in Kansas City at the time (it's now at Illinois Railway Museum). It was an excellent model, and I'd like to see it again, but cannot find what issue it is in, though I know I have the issue here somewhere. I have tried every category of the Kalmbach Model Train Magazine search
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