This is week three with the ProtoThrottle (PT) and I'm impressed.  This blog entry is to share my experiences and also reflect on some potential "bumps in the road" with the introduction of this technology.   These are my personal thoughts, I have no commercial, personal, or financial ties to Iowa Scale Engineering who produced this throttle.

Some of you might remember me drooling over the pre-production Genesis GP39-2 models that Athearn announced and had on display at the 2015 NTS in Portland, OR. Three of the first run were decorated for Portland & Western, the prototype railroad I model (with modifications....).

I was pretty much

eCoupler snapped by my work here’s some photos

coupler head is near close edge of track this is after repairs

“How did you spend your weekend?” asked one friend of mine at the work. “Nothing special, among other things  i was watching videos in the youtube about RR modeling”  I said.  “And?”  he insisted.  I started talking about and I didn’t realise that I was talking more and more passionate about all the nice things I had seen and learnt. A second friend participated and both together encouraged me to talk.

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I just found out today that I am getting almost all of my "GG-Pa"s train stuff. He died last year, but he was a really cool great-grandpa, he even had great-great grandkids that knew him. My mom said that her cousin was at her Aunt's house when they were moving and saw all of the boxes of his old stuff and it was going to go to the Goodwill and she started crying. So she took it all home.

First, a sincere thank you to abelida for identifying the building I was working on, and setting me on  the path to get original views of the kit. 

This is how the kit was originally designed to be built:

Folks, I'm trying to track down a picture of an old HO scale building.  It was the office of the Weekly Standard newspaper, and I know it was around in the early sixties at least.  I am using it as the base for a scratching building project, and want to show the "before" picture as well as the project results.

The example I have has no manufacturer stamped anywhere on the pieces I have (this building was an incomplete pile of broken parts when I rescued it from my mother's basement 30 years ago). 

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 would like to share some of my techniques for Weathering Ultra Modern Australian HO scale locomotives.

It might be of interest.