1120 Done for Now

After more months than I’d planned, 1120 has left the workbench and returned to Golden Lake to resume service to Pembroke. I decided to experiment with a dot filter on the boiler and tender, and it came out a little heavier than I would have liked. However, considering it is not on home rails, perhaps […]

Railway Modellers’ Meet is in the Bag

This weekend was the Railway Modellers’ Meet of BC, our annual divisional meet here in BC. As chair of the organizing committee, I had the opportunity to fill in for a cancellation in the clinic line-up, and supported the new recruiter for table-top clinics (soon to be renamed “demonstrations” I think) with a demo as […]

Coal loads for 1120 and 622

I had already started to put 1120 together again when I realized the coal bunker was still just sheets of lead. I’ve made this mistake before, and narrowly averted disaster when I discovered that #10’s tender was not water-tight and consequently wound up dribbling glue all over the electronics inside. So, this time I did […]

Cricut Print and Score and Cut Experiments

It’s time to conclude my Cricut printed car sides experiments. In the end, I’ve not been able to replicate the beaded siding that graced most Canada Atlantic house cars. However, the single-score method might be good enough to represent passenger car siding. In photographs, the freight car siding looks like alternating deep and shallow grooves. […]