Monthly Archives: September 2014


Or should I say brass? I have been working on a Traincat Southern Pacific C-30-6 caboose kit for the last six months or so.  I have been assembling sections like the floor. Today I took a giant step forward by painting the orange ends and steps of the caboose.  I […]

Different iron in the fire






So I have been wanting to build a roundy-round set in the early 1950’s so I can run my Bachmann 2-8-0. My fiend Joe D’Amato really planted the seed when he gave me a Micro-Trains engine house. This engine house has many components that look and feel like John Allan’s […]

the second layout