The Golden Spike!

Well sort of, it's more of a silver colour. Anyways tonight marked the completion of all trackwork on the layout. Now to climb under and connect all those leads.

Some Misc. Prototype.

 Some old work horses bring a mixed train into Portage Jct.

This one snuck in just after sunset, I am not sure if the CN Police were trying to beat the train back to the yard, or trying to get a look at me. Although the new paint scheme is nice on their cars.

HO Scale & Steam to Boot!

The start of an HO Scale repaint project I am doing. It seems weird to be working with this scale again, as I went to N Scale almost 15 years ago. Both of these pieces are getting repainted into the EH&S colors/schemes. More progress to follow.

It's Finally Done!

Well the main line is finally done on the new track plan. I ran the first train around for about a half hour with no issues. Now onto the yard.

I will try to add a video later this week.

A little trip west.

Well it just so worked out that I had to make a work trip to Calgary last week. And wouldn't you know it, Supertrain 2012 was at the end of the week. So the show was a good mix of layouts and vendors, Some very nicely done modular layouts. And I didn't take a single picture of model trains, I saved that for the day spent in the mountains.Would have been better if the sun had stayed out all day, not just when there was no trains.

Some Progress

Nothing much to report, got some of the decals started tonight. Managed to get some time track-side this weekend too, will post pictures later this week.

A new airbrush....

Well, its been a while since i did anything train related so here is an update. Last week i went to Artists Emporium here in Winnipeg. On sale they had an Aztek 470 kit for $79.99 instead of $169.00, Ok I can splurge for that price. And WOW what a difference it makes of the Badger I was using.

So i started re doing some of the U25's that were posted about below. While painting the noses on the units, I had one U25 masked for the usual Reading Green. And while changing paints to the Reading Green from the black, I looked up and saw the unit below.

Now this was the first iteration of the EH&S back in my teen years. That is a Tyco GP-20 sitting on a Athearn GP-9 frame. Fairly basic black & yellow paint, All done with Rattle Can. Upon seeing this I looked back at the one U25 awaiting another coat of green paint, looked at my current cup of black paint in the airbrush and you get the following.

So this units frame isn't quite finished yet, it only has the yellow applied for the battery boxes. But mounted on the frame I think it looks sharp.

Now I am not sure which one I like better......