I have decided to help out Rick Mills at the South Dakota State Railraod Museum in Hill City with a diorama he wanted built, to represent Spearfish canyons Sandstone cliffs the dual gauge Ralroads and the Pondarosa, Spruce, paper birch and the scenery of the Black Hills of South Dakota. So this is my begining of the concept all the way to finish. So we have decided to use some models built by past modeler from the area.

The model railroad I’ve been building in my middle school classroom has been more or less frozen in time since students went home due to Covid last March. Teaching remotely was and remains a tremendous challenge for all parties involved, and when most students started returning to campus a few months ago the transitions and complications were even more challenging, taking a big toll on my outlook for my unique circumstances of being able to leverage my hobby interests in my professional life. 

In 1986 Manitoba Pool Elevators decided to remove the Pool #1 elevator and replace it with the Pool C elevator from down the way.  I watched it unfold over the summer.  It wasn't something you see everyday. Click the link to read the full post.

Shuffling around grain elevators

My experience and hobby during COVID times this year.

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Yesterday, I briefly paid visit to an antique store I hadn’t dropped by in quite some time. The prices there can be anywhere from brilliant to horrendous. Generally, if you want to get something for a reasonable price, look for stuff without a price tag on it. Anyhow, while exploring, I came across a little pile of HO trains sitting on a shelf- and since there wasn’t much I’d seen so far, I figured I’d just as well look at them.

In January of this year, I came across an article Running Extra where this train was modeled in N scale using 3D printing. In the article, the author gave the name of the person and the fact that you could purchase these models on Etsy. As I do a lot of 3D printing, I contacted this individual to see if he could provide an HO scale version and if that wasn’t possible, drawings of the cars. It ended up that he could do neither but told me that most of the information came from pictures and videos he got online.

Went back thru at least 10 pages of index pages, couldn't find a matching topic line.  So excuse if I messed up and missed it it.  Three months of Covid last summer still has my typing and reading abilities go all over the scale!

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