Finishing the Cattle Chutes

The Railway Modellers Meet is approaching, and it’s time to finish some of these projects so I can bring them to the display. There was almost nothing left to do to the cattle chute module except decide what to do about the end of track. After perusing my collection of Canada Atlantic photos, I concluded […]

Cattails Planted

The cattails are now installed, turning the small pond between the pasture and the cattle spur into a marsh. I left a couple of feet near the culvert free of weeds, as I reckon the section man would have dug up that area to keep the culvert free. The pond is about 40 scale feet […]

Cattle Pen Fencing

Following last month’s experiment with the stupidly fine wire, I’ve gone on to refine the technique and produce enough wire fencing to keep any future cattle shipments enclosed long enough to get them aboard the stock cars. It’s still remarkably difficult to work with this material that I can barely see and that seems to […]

Cattle Spur Culvert

When I initially routed out the stream on the cattle spur module, I felt the roadbed was too low to allow for a culvert, and so, I chewed straight through the roadbed to make a space for a bridge. The rails flew over this chasm for months as I waffled on the bridge or culvert […]

Stupidly Fine Wire

It is better to leave a detail off than to make it too heavy or over-scale. Typical line fences, such as the one at the edge of the pasture, or the fencing for the cattle pens, are a mesh of wires no more than 1.5 mm in diameter. That’s less than .02 mm in HO […]

Craftsman’s Corner 2024

By all accounts his weekend’s Vancouver Train Expo was a roaring success. It was perfect train show weather – raining enough to keep people focused indoors, but not so awful that they wouldn’t go out – and the ticket sales reflected that opportunity. Over at the Craftsman’s Corner, we had a steady stream of visitors […]