The Weathering Depot

Here is a recent addition to my fleet, purchased off eBay. This car in my opinion is a nicely weathered car. Below are two photos:

Back from taking a break, today I’m covering the addition of another small module. This module was the smallest module on my original layout, measuring 2ft wide by about 3 ft long. I didn’t have as much room as I thought between the first module and our closet so I…

I’ve just completed another project, this one an Athearn Genesis “primed for grime” Golden West Service boxcar. This guy took about a week to complete. The car has the usual underside weathering plus several layers of weathering on the sides and ends. I used washes, powders, acrylic paint, and rust…

Coming soon to the “new” layout is another module section I had from the old layout, a 2×2 ft extension. This small module section had the mainline from Dickinson yard coming through it, plus a siding into Electro-Met, a company in Alloy, WV. These tracks on the 2 ft module…

I recently was given two HO scale cars to do for a local modeler. This client models modern day, which means plenty of rust and grime on an older boxcar and plenty of graffiti. The second car I was asked to weather is a Cargill hopper. This modeler requested plenty…

Here’s a quick little project I was able to do in one day, in between projects for clients. This Railbox car had been lightly weathered previously. This go round I simply applied a brown wash to the sides and while still wet, lightly dabbed some dirt colored powder onto the…

Today I thought I’d share a few photos of the module as it looks today. Tomorrow I have a package of Bachmann maintenance crew coming to add to the same figures already placed in Allied Chemical. Photos are coming once these additional figures are added. In the meantime a few…

A bit more weathering done on the module the last few days. Not only did I paint and weather the first set of four tanks posted previously, but I also finally covered up the fake brown plastic base they sit on. What I did was paint the base with white…

Details definitely make a layout. Details set the tone and era for a layout. Details can create separate little scenes on a layout. That’s my intention with this module. It definitely isn’t much of a model railroad, but one must make do with what space you have. This past week…

Well, maybe not new layout, but perhaps new module! A lot of work put into the module today starting with cleaning all the track first off. All the buildings I needed are in place now, along with all the fencing and trees I’m going to need. I still need to…

Finally here as in one module from my old layout! Today I was able to retrieve my one usable module that was part of my old layout from our storage facility. This was part of my Nitto, WV area which included a scrapyard, and Allied Chemical. I’ll probably put my…

While working on the C&NW open hopper, I pulled these two cars out of one train box to weather up for eBay. These two B&O 60’ auto parts boxcars are Walther’s cars, purchased many moons ago while at Caboose Hobbies. The cars had the roofs previously weathered by myself, and…

This morning I’ll post up some photos of my latest project. I have to laugh at myself because I must have been half asleep when I purchased this car new on eBay. I say that because I wanted and was looking for a C&NW covered hopper to weather up instead…

This week’s layout photo shows a view inside Allied Chemical in Nitro, WV at dusk:

This week’s photo shows Alco 9806 with caboose by the yard office in Nitro, WV under threatening skies: