The Weathering Depot

That’s what it takes on the prototype, this from personal experience. Such was the case on the Penn Central as with any other railroad, past or present. Recently we were out along the railroad in our usual area watching the PC. Starting with this series, I’ll introduce you to some…

This week’s photo from the original layout:

A few examples of my rusty work:

Here in photos is the current progress on the latest project of six cars, showing the trucks, undersides of the cars plus roof of one reefer requested to be heavily weathered. More photos when finished!

Here is the current commission work  I’m doing for a modeler, 4 refrigerator cars and two covered hoppers. More photos as work is completed:

For all of the newcomers, here are some views of my den which is now basically my man cave with my layout on one side and all of my work area on the other side. Of course you have to have a flat screen TV in there as well to…

 I found stored away in an old train box a car I had forgotten about, this Accurail 50′ ft ex-PRR boxcar patched for PC and weathered. It now rejoins the fleet and was spotted today on the team track:

Just added this evening is the tiled gallery in the bottom right corner of the site showing quite a bit of my work over the past several years. Check it out and hope you enjoy!

Oh well, after working up the other website theme I just didn’t like some of the features, especially not being able to show many posts and especially older posts, so here we go with the new final product! Hope you all enjoy, be sure to subscribe to get all the…