A few years ago I started to add a few scratchbuilt and kitbashed freight cars on my 1900 train. One of the first models was this 50' furniture boxcar that I built from two MDC old-time boxcars.

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Today I continued with my layout addition.
Here the result.

 

To All: My newest Early Rail Boxcar project is this Virgina Car & Foundry kit produced by John Canfield. I assembled, painted, decaled (Art Griffin decals) and dullcoated the car. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

The cork roadbed has dried and now it is time to test fit, level and make the final installation of the bridge. To start, it is helpful to have an extra set of hands (thank you Mrs. Calhoun) to hold the bridge roughly in place so that temporary supports can be installed to check for level and then installation of the slotted pieces.

Wow, it was a busy day on the Letellier sub!

The wife and I went for a drive. We began in Emerson where we found the BNSF unit grain train with some mixed interchange freight tacked onto it, parked north of town, waiting to head south across the border. The crew arrived while we were there and began prepping to move the train south.

This is a great locomotive. I bought it used so it was rough but good price of 60.00 bucks. It has metal handrails plastic body diecast trucks. No problems I am very impressed with it. Athearn did a good job on it. It will pull probably a 20 car train this bad boy has a lot of power in it. Details are awesome metal handrails don't break and look very prototypical. I would recommend it to anyone. Thanks for reading my review.

The New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. acquired a brand new SW1200. Unfortunately it doesn't come in un-dec. I will need to remove the lettering first. More to come on this model since it's an unusual model, at least for the NY,V & N Rwy.

Builders Photo March 1, 2014

Bernd