Pasture Backdrop Rough-in

I’ve always planned to make the backdrops for Pembroke out of aluminum flashing. Styrene would probably be easier to work, but I feel it will get brittle and start to break with time. Also, aluminum is shiny, which might help to gather more of the horizon light and cast it up towards the sky. As […]

Pasture smoothing

The rough pasture matured long enough beside its prototype photo to gain hash marks where material needed to be added or removed. So, with the weather increasingly bucolic and locomotive projects winding down for now, I mixed up a batch of Celluclay in the hopes of making the model look a little more like its […]

Updated Register Pages

After filling in the register every time a train traversed the line for almost a year, it was time to add some more pages. With all that experience came some improvements. First, I did away with the Tonnage column. In terms of model operations, it’s as useful as a spoon in a sword fight. Indeed, […]

716 Mary St

I needed an appropriate project for my Cricut demo at the Railway Modellers Meet last weekend. The three gable-end houses between the Pembroke Milling Company warehouse and the freight shed presented manageable opportunities and so I decided one of them would be the subject. None of these houses appears to have survived the 1912-13 engorgement […]