Yearly Archives: 2016

It started just over a year ago, Joe D’Amato at Micro Trains asked me to go to the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler to shoot a derelict old Maintenance of Way car with three doors on the sides and an end that opened the entire width of the car. SPMW […]

The MOW Horse Car…..part 1

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Ok, over 20 years ago I bought a Con Cor 2-8-8-2, took off the tender shell and installed a shortened Bachmann 4-8-4 ATSF tender shell to make it an oil burner…ran it a few times (not even an hour) and a power lead to the motor fell off….so I promptly […]

Ugh…..

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The current trainboard.com weathering challenge is a graffiti challenge, and I decided to weather a Southern Pacific Boxcar and attempt my hand at graffiti…I used cheap acrylics for the fade, roof and patch, an ultra fine Sharpie for the two tags (a Dead Kennedys logo and an Anarchy A)…and I […]

Weathering a boxcar…

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