details – Notes on Designing, Building, and Operating Model Railroads

Decal work – 1

The last blog post ended with missing decal sets for recently painted freight cars! My list of completed resin and 3D printed freight cars ready for the paint shop leads this blog post. I needed to find all of these decal sets to keep progress moving forward.

Lumber loads

As I prepped the layout for a recent operating session, I realized there were only a couple of loads on hand for the gondolas. I wanted more variety and remembered I had a neat kit in the stash. I checked a few boxes and found it.

Door details

*AC&F builder image from the Westerfield Models collection*

I’ve had a Funaro & Camerlengo HO scale Illinois Central automobile box car on the workbench for too many weeks. Over the last couple of days, I tackled some of the final details.

Layout Lighting

Several months ago, I started setting up my HO scale Wheeling Freight Terminal layout for an operating session. That’s when I found a problem in the main yard. There wasn’t enough light.

At the B&O Railroad Museum

My Sweetie recently attended a conference in Baltimore, so I tagged along. I spent most of a Monday wandering around the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.