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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I completed the build of the last of my five ET&WNC hopper car kits (from On30IMA) over the weekend. They weren’t exactly easy kits to make, but now that they’re done, I’m glad I went through the effort as I’ve desperately wanted representations of these hoppers ever since I started the layout...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Ever since the pandemic forced us all indoors, I’ve been mostly either working from home, doing whatever house cleaning chores my wife comes up with, or working on these.
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    1942 US Roughout Boots

    Wow. I've been collecting US stuff since the 1980s and I've never seen a pair of shoes in that good condition before now. I was sure they were repros until I saw the soles and the interior markings...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    That's a tree to the far left, just the edge of it. the smoke was a paper funnel I covered in cotton balls and spray painted black. These exposures are almost 2 minutes long, so I hover and move the cone around so it' blurred and partially translucent. It's how they did it back in the film days...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Meanwhile, the other end of the train just clears the edge of the small corn field on it's way to Winner, TN:
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Playing around with the camera again last night: Caboose 505 trails the afternoon freight to Johnson City, Tennessee while passing through the rural community of Sadie. At the Grindstaff store, the old men ponder the "war across the water," circa 1943...
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    Babylon Berlin

    Season 3 is out. I came across it totally by accident the other night and I'm on episode 4. It's really good and I've found myself checking stuff out (a chilling opening to an early episode shows a non-character being executed for crimes, by beheading with an axe. I had no idea they were still...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Thanks! I assume by "post 1028" you mean this shot? I'll tell you how I did that. I used a clear plastic drinking straw. I held it by hand, up to the edge of the headlight. The exposure was almost 2 minutes, so I had to hold it very carefully. Back when people shot in film, they had to use all...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I finished the shed in the Army compound and put lighting into it tonight after placing it on the layout with all the detail stuff I'd gotten ready for it. Now it's DONE.
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    As part of the Army presence, I finished several 55-gallon drums, and dozens of Jerry cans. This Tamaiya kit included several German cans, so I glued them in rows together, with American cans on each end, so it wasn't obvious. The empty drums are made by Tichy Train Group. I added some hand...
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    Movies that would be dull without their soundtracks

    One sticks out to me immediately: "Dances with Wolves"
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Last night I decided to test the pulling power of my new locomotive. I put almost all the freight cars on the layout behind it and it only slipped once I put a passenger car onto the end of that. Once I pulled that coach back off, I had 14 cars in tow, making it the longest train I’ve ever run...
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    Hat blocks for BIG heads?

    I feel your pain. I, too, wear a 7 3/4 (or about 62CM) comfortably. Heck, I never buy any baseball style caps without trying them one because one size does NOT always fit all. I pretty much buy any cap that fits me, even if I wonder if I'll wear the thing...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Over the weekend, the 796th Railway Operating Battalion ready their 2-6-2T for another day's duty... Meanwhile, some of the tools have been spread out for some much-needed journal work on a boxcar: Nearby, the wheeled vehicles for the unit remain silent for now, safely secured within their...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    These photos aren't the best quality, but yesterday I added a Pyle steam-powered generator to the roof of my Baldwin 'trench' Class 10 locomotive. The Davenport copies all had generators by the 1940s, so I figured this needed one as well. And as an afterthought once the glue and paint was...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Over the last couple of days, I've been playing around with some lighting ideas... I really like how this turned out:
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Did a couple of new videos... https://youtu.be/vrUnfQN7kYw https://youtu.be/rt3AOIDfmqI
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Over the weekend, I was busy with a bunch of detail stuff. I took a couple of coaches I bought it a show for next to nothing, Christmas patterns, and turn them both into Maintenance of Way cars. I didn't really need them, and I probably won't use them in any op sessions, but I just wanted to...
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    Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"

    Something I just thought of, I guess the market for new reproduction pinks and greens for re-enactors will collapse once the new uniforms come out. I'll for sure be buying a set and making whatever changes I need to make them look right for the 1940s...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I'm still pondering where the Army unit sign will go but I think this works. Really, the sign should face completely away from the viewer but from this angle, the viewer can see it and it does make some sense why it would be placed like this: If it stays there, I'm going to make a pile of earth...

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