Custom Model Building Services for Model Railroaders Everywhere
The Wabash Railroad
in Southern Ontario, circa 1951
ABOUT MY RAILROAD... Until the Autumn of 2008 I was building a layout based on the Canadian National Railway’s branch line hub in Palmerston, Ontario. Then, I had the opportunity to visit Bill Darnaby’s well-known HO scale model railroad, The Maumee Route. The experience had a profound effect on me and caused me to rethink everything I was attempting to do in my train room. After some careful thinking about options for the space, I settled upon modeling something that was in my own backyard. The Wabash Railroad had a significant operation across Southern Ontario that just begs to be modeled. The Buffalo Division was primarily a single-track bridge line established to reduce shipping times between Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan.I am building a double-decked layout featuring selected towns and signature scenes on the Wabash Railroad’s 240-mile Buffalo Division. My layout models the segment between Aylmer and Cayuga, Ontario. This 60-mile stretch of the Wabash includes a number of online customers typical of small-town Ontario, as well as a section of the mainline shared with the Canadian National Railways’s Hagersville Sub. Since I am modeling 1951 it will be neat to see the little CNR 2-6-0s sharing the rails with the paired F7A units used on the Wabash Red Ball freights. I’ll be posting regular updates and photos of my progress on this blog.Please visit often. |
THE LATEST BLOG POST...
That's a lot of Orange!July 23rd, 2017  Now I've built a lot of reefer kits over the years now. Sunshine, Westerfield, Tichy, etc. These 5 were a new experience for me. These kits were created by the late Stan Rydarowicz, to recreate the Hormel company steel reefers.  The kits use an Intermountain PFE reefer kit as a core, and Stan created resin ends and sides to accurately model these cars. I had to do a little digging to discover the correct shade of orange for these cars and consensus was the orange you see on the models. I mixed Scalecoat reefer orange and reefer yellow, 50/50, to tone the orange down a tad. And they're still pretty bright! Decals and flat finish will calm things down I'm sure. Another day of paint curing and I can apply decals, and put away my sunglasses! |