The Weathering Depot

A PC geep and cabin works the mine in the hamlet of Hitop, West Virginia, in another view from the old Hitop Branch layout….

I’ve finished this car I posted on earlier and will be on eBay on Friday. The other side of the car I’ve left fairly clean I guess you’d say ( not as grimy as the other side of the prototype) , but of course still faded. The reweigh decal says…

After making a trip to seven different cities around the country my new Walther’s PC NW2 has finally arrived, has been programmed and weathered, and now is seeing action on the layout! Before and after photos of weathering below:

I’ve started on the next project for eBay, this Moloco 50’ Wabash insulated boxcar. I’m trying to replicate the prototype photo shown. So far I think it’s a fairly good representation. More photos when the car is finished:

In this post I’ll talk about what it took to modify the two modules on the current layout. The longest module is part of the previous Nitro, West Virginia module where tracks went into the chemical plant, scrapyard, and bakery. The shortest module was on the other side of the…

With a move to a different place in 2022 that has an internal garage, I obviously lost the space for my layout, now only having a separate den for both a layout and workshop. In measuring the dimensions I found I could use two modules from my layout in one…

Today I thought I’d post more about the current small switching layout I have, remnants of my larger, around the wall garage layout based on the NYC/PC/CR Hitop branch in the mountains of West Virginia. The original layout was a 4×8 based on Model Railroader magazine’s Virginian layout back in…

Coming very soon from Midwest Model Railroad is a Walther’s Penn Central NW2 with DCC and sound. Photos coming soon….

I’m currently working on ten BNSF hoppers from Intermountain for a modeler back east. So far work is ongoing on six of the ten as shown below. All will be weathered with some patched along with graffiti:

Once a week starting today I will post a photo from my current layout. More on my current layout can be found at: https://cincinnatiterminalsub.blogspot.com for now here’s a photo of PC 5628 switching McGraw Fuel and Oil dealer yesterday:

This ExactRail Southern boxcar is now finished and on the layout. It has light weathering on the car body and roof plus underside is done as usual. On to the next project!

Latest acquisition is this Southern Pullman Standard 5277 waffle side boxcar by ExactRail. This guy will be lightly weathered for the layout:

This Athearn car has also been finished and is now on the layout. This car was faded with a few brown washes applied plus different textures and pigments on the roof:

This guy is now finished and on my eBay store! This car was completed using two different rust textures, washes, three colors of acrylic paint, and pigments. All told this car took about a week to complete. Below are photos of the finished car, plus the next project up, this…

Another project started for sale on eBay, the Athearn ready to roll Railbox. Here’s a view as of last night on progress so far: