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Its been a long time since I posted anything, but I thought it was about time to share some of what I've been working on again, so here goes. Hope you all enjoy. As a modeller of Canadian Pacific in the 1990's and a lover of intermodal trains, I was confronted with a lack of accurate well...

To all the Canucks out there... HAPPY CANADA DAY!! And an early happy 4th to all you Americans.

It is official, Athearn is switching to Tsunami Sound for future Genesis releases! This is great news! I may actually buy an Athearn with sound now! From Athearn: April 29, 2009 Athearn to Offer SoundTraxx Tsunami Equipped Locomotives Athearn Trains is excited to announce that all...

Hi everyone, I've put some photos of the Windsor Modular Railroad Club's display from the Essex Train show up on the club web site. If you are interested in seeing our layout, please have a look. http://www.windsor-modular.com/Essex2K9.php Hope you enjoy the photos. Feel free to look...

This looks like fun to model, how about it Jerome? You do smashed containers or only engines? :) They regularly run double stacked sea-containers through the Windsor/Detroit tunnel, but the taller domestic containers don't fit when stacked. This train was re-routed due the flooding in the US...

One of many, many current projects. I hope to actually finish one some day :D This is a kaslo GP9RM kit with a proto 2000 powered chassis. The shell is pretty good, the flash isn't very heavy and the parts fit together well. Here is the basic body assembly, the dynamic brake blisters and...

I've always liked CN's GP38-2W. 38's are cool, and one with a wide cab is even better in my book! I decided that this would be a great project to test out the Railflyer Model Prototypes parts on. Now that I've received my first order of Railflyer Model Prototypes parts, I can get started...

I build this shell a few years ago, along with a sister unit, but never got around to detailing and painting them. I've got the urge to finish these up and get them into revenue service. The first thing I'm doing is replacing the pilots and step wells with Railflyer parts. The powered...

Well, I just got a Digitrax PR2 and hooked it up to my PC so I can upload my own sounds to my Digitrax Sound decoders. I found one really good site with horn sounds, but does anyone know of any good site to get rail road sounds from? I'm looking for horns, bells, scanner traffic, etc. This is...

For anyone interested, I've posted a review and some pictures of Athearns new Maxi-I Well car in the product reviews section. If you model intermodal, you'll want to check this car out. It is fantastic! http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/reviewpost/showproduct.php?product=106

for anyone who wants to see how the 1:1 guys replace 10 crossovers in 51 hours, this is a really cool presentation. It is a rather large PDF, so dial uppers beware. http://cee.uiuc.edu/railroad/CEE/pdf/PPT%27s/fall07/Brighton%20Park%20U%20of%20I%2010-19-07.pdf

Hi everyone, I posted this on the railroadforums side of the fence too, so you may be seeing it twice, sorry. Anyway, I recently bought some of Athearn's new Bathtub Coal Gons in the Red CP Rail scheme with the multi mark. I am looking for some photos of the real cars for weathering...

Last weekend I got the opportunity to visit the HO Model Engineers Society Club Layout in Hamilton Ontario with a group of my clubs members. We were in Paris Ontario for a train show and met up with a former member of ours who moved to Hamilton and joined the H.O.M.E.S. club. The H.O.M.E.S...

I'll start us off for once... CP sent a rare treat into the Oak Intermodal yard this week, TWO rebuilt SD45's! The CEFX unit is the newest addition to my collection. Both models are Proto 2000 engines. I patched and decalled the CEFX one. The CP one is straight outta the box. (A Rarity for...

Tuesday was the first test run of the Canadian Confederation train. The train consists of 2 FP9A's (1867 and 1967) and steam generator, baggage car, two 'sleepers' and 6 display cars. I had to head out early to catch the train as it exited Harron Tunnel on approach to F-Tower and the Windsor...

For anyone who may be interested. The Local CBC news came by the Model RR Club I belong to and did a short segment on our group for the local evening news. The clip is about five minutes long and was posted on YouTube by one of our members. You can check it out at the link below. You'll even get...

Having been bitten by the model railroad bug, I finally got around to finishing this kit. I regret not taking any photos for the kit while I was building it, but there is a very indepth pictoral on assembling the car on the web site. This is a model of a container only spine car built for...

I was looking through one of my parts bins and came across my first kit bashing attempt. About twelve years ago, I decided I wanted a CN SD50F. I had seen a picture of a model someone else had done and decided I could do one too. I bought an Athearn FP45 shell and adapted it to fit the Athearn...

I have finally begun work on a model of the Canadian Confederation train. I am building this train for my Dad who remembers seeing the train as a child. Being born 10 years after it ran in 1967, I had never seen pictures of the train until recently. ORO Decals has released several decal sets...

I don't consider myself a 'pro' by any means, but this seemed the most appropriate spot for this. Here is a quick explaination of how I made the fiber-optic class lights in my VIA F40PH-2 projects. As requested by Chris (Hawkeye251) Hope this helps.