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IAIS's West End - My new favorite speaker
I recently was reminded of Bill Brillinger's speaker comparison thread at http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/17902 and started investigating iPhone 4s loud speakers (long skinny one at the bottom of the phone, not the cube-shaped earpiece speaker), which are commonly available on Ebay for less than a dollar w/free shipping.
Covered Hoppers in Lime & Borax Service
To All: Today I present two covered hoppers that I weathered for Lime & Borax Service. I used spackling to achieve this look. This type of weathering would definitely fit in the extreme weathering category. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout
IAIS's West End - UP power on IAIS
I've been on a UP locomotive building kick lately and thought I'd share the results. Many of the models in this post had previously been in service on the layout, but in untouched factory paint with no weathering. A big part of this push was to renumber, redetail, and weather them to match units that operated on the IAIS during May 2005.
The Time is MOW
I'm on a BCRY MOW car kick lately, as I'd like to have some models of rolling stock that the shortline actually owns. It began with the cut down gons which I've just started, and now I'm tackling ballast hoppers. As anyone familiar with N knows, there are basically two RTR ballast hoppers available; the beautifully done Atlas 70-ton Hart hopper and the generic Walthers hopper with crude 70s-era tooling. This ended up being a rather tough decision...
Red 'n Ready
Since moving into our house last fall, we have yet to open all of our boxes. Some of these boxes have been moved at least twice without being opened. Most of these are stored in our spare room but as it's being turned into a nursery, they need to be dealt with one way or another. Being as this weekend was about 1,500 degrees (celcius), we took refuge in our air conditioned oasis to do productive indoor things.
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