The Weathering Depot

I have been weathering mainly HO Scale model trains since 2009 for fellow modelers and family. I specialize in freight cars, especially rust buckets. I do anything from light to heavy weathering using a variety of different mediums, sometimes three or four on a single car. I take care with models, therefore a model may take me a week plus. Please check out my work here on my page. My price varies as to how much weathering is requested. I will also for an extra labor and parts charge change out couplers and wheels. My fees and hours are on the "contact me" tab.

“New” old finds!

The best finds of all are these original Walther’s DC locomotives. These were left to me by a dear friend I worked with at the original Caboose Hobbies who passed away in December 2020. There are two of the same type locomotives with different road numbers of course, purchased by my friend way back when, as you can tell by the price. Both were Milwaukee Road units, although this one shown I stripped the paint, repainted and weathered this for Penn Central and numbered as an ex PRR unit I used to see running around part of Cincinnati. These were based out of McCullough yard in Cincinnati, but I couldn’t find a decal for McCullough so applied Sharonville for Sharon yard in Cincinnati, at least to show these were based in the area. I’m going to finally paint the handrails and install them and someday hopefully have a DCC decoder installed. These are THE heaviest suckers I’ve ever seen!

The last photo shows an Intermountain hopper I thoroughly weathered and rusted up a few years ago. This guy will go up on eBay soon…

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Steve Campbell

Welcome to my site! I’ve been a model railroader since the age of 14, and a railfan all my life! I’m retired now but have traveled all over on both Amtrak and tourist railroads plus steam excursions. My layouts have been published twice, and I started weathering work in 2009. I have also worked for a regional railroad in the past as first a brakeman/conductor then track inspector. Hope you enjoy the journey with me on my website!

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