Feb 27, 2000 Copetown West, Ontario |
Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.
Lots of rust on this piece of rolling stock with a bit of a repaint, Sept 6 2019 |
This covered hopper has a good amount of rust happening on the upper half of the car which also has some gray patching lower down. Sept 8 2019. |
A short CV milk train is seen on my 12' diorama that I was testing my modeling skills on back in the early 1990's. The structures were a mix of what I had built back then. Some I still have and use. |
My NH boxcar fleet has been growing over the past few years. These cars could be found all around the continent at one time. |
GWWD 102 was sitting in front of the CASO station at CN St Thomas south on September 20, 1994. |
GWWD 103 sits with its mates at CP Quebec St yard in London on February 05, 1994. |
GWWD 103 had been moved to the CP shop track in London by the time this image was exposed on February 19, 1994. |
This is the side that I plan to expand the store. A good size addition will be required. |
The rear wall of the store. |
I will leave the window signs as is but may add some to the overhang which will be added. |
Internet find of general store in Connecticut. |
This wonderful view of front door area of a general store in Vermont was taken by Ken Karlewicz and found on the internet. There is great looking signage over the door and on the windows. |
This general store is located in Maine. |
Not sure were this country store is but a nice looking example of something we might model. |
The far left end of the diorama has the ice house backside in view, a bit of a Tichy fence and the auto body shop. |
There is a bit of an alley with a broken down car with tools around it and some trash against the walls. All this makes the scene come together with the other structures. |
Looking down onto the CN Oakville sub looking west one gets a good look at the ballasting, spillage and staining between the rails on Sept. 7, 2019. |
GWWD 100 was sitting in the London, Ontario CP yard on February 05, 1994. |
GWWD 101 made for an interesting load aboard CP company service flat car 421739. |
On the side wall one can see some lifted board up higher but a few worn boards down lower. I used a hobby knife to trim into the boards edges...a very simple trim job. |
The lower front wall has some wear to be seen also. |
The rear wall has a lot more wear to see. Some weeds will hide a bit of it so no worries if you get heavy handed with this process. I also applied some AK wash for wood along the lower areas. |
The completed B&M section shed. I used construction paper to make the tarpaper roof. The seams are weathered using Bragdon dark rust and PanPastel raw umber shade. |
The underside of the roof is painted Ammo Rail Center dark grey. The stack is painted AK winter streaking grime. |
The roof was all one piece that I first taped together then glued from the underside. The tape was then removed. |
Front wall has a few pulled up boards. with some PanPastel raw umber shade weathering steaked down. |
BN 2098 is finally working. Throwing up some mean looking smoke it is working at the top end of London CN yard, April 4, 2024. |
March 30, 2024 the shop staff is working away on BN 2098. It is once again needing attention while the train crew stand around at the crossing switch. Other power is blocked in by this set. |
March 16 2024 three shop men work away to see if they can get BN 2098 running properly. |
TCSZ 461577, one of the newer, lighter, trailers was on CP train 528 at London yard on October 16, 1994. The Conrail logo is visible on this unit. |
The smaller Triple Crown lettering is present on TCSZ 463972. |
CSRZ 914040 is the last trailer on a westbound CP train at London in the early evening of July 27, 1993. The low sun nicely illuminates the attached rail wheelsets visible between the trailer tires. |
The basic kit does not have a lot included but enough to come up with a interesting and prototypical little structure. |