The Weathering Depot

Today the local out of Riverside has brought us quite a few inbound cars. Looking at the waybills shows a gondola for Sullivan scrap, three tank cars for Monsanto Chemical, an Evergreen boxcar for the team track, and a WP boxcar of paints and stains for Armitage Furniture. Previously yesterday…

This week’s photo from the original layout:

A multitude of details is what imo makes a layout come to life. As in the real world, there are vehicles everywhere, signs everywhere, power poles and lines everywhere. Putting these and more details on a layout just adds more and more realism. Such is the case with my layout.…

Yes, that’s oil residue from these PC locomotives sitting in an area constantly. Another little detail added today, using engine oil by AK with actual soot dabbed on top while wet to give a bit of oily greasy look to the spots!

Here we continue on first trick with the local area based locomotive NW2 8806 switching the inbound and outbound cars the local has brought out from Riverside yard. Today’s crew includes Charlie as engineer, Fred as conductor, and Jimmy as brakeman on 8806’s crew. Of course the local has the…

Just a short post today showing a bit of the weathering on my old standby,  GP7 5628. Unfortunately the photo doesn’t show the rust on the cab roof.  Looks like the old gal has been sideswiped at one time looking at that handrail stanchion! This locomotive is absolutely still my…

Here today is a map of the railroads of Cincinnati circa 1952. Numerous railroads and their lines ran through and around the Queen City. The line I model runs along the lower left corner of the map, based out of Riverside yard in Sedamsville. A yard I actually ran into…

Here is this week’s photo from the original Hitop branch layout, working the coal in West Virginia:

In this post we’ll finish up switching Monsanto with the rest of our crew, this time myself, Fred, and Jimmy.  It’s now dark as we come back from lunch and get 8806 going. What we need to finish is to move the tank cars from the holding track to the…

A look at the layout this morning, including the next local with inbound cars:

Today we’re switching out Monsanto Chemical. As 8806 is basically assigned to the industrial area out along the Ohio here, there’s always a local out of Riverside yard that brings inbound cars and then of course takes the outbound cars back to the yard. So today we start with the…