Hey everybody here is my progress on the Mascoutin Valley Railroad for May!  Looking back I got a quite a few odds and ends done!  We even have hats!!! Hope you enjoy the video!

Till next time, keep 'er in Notch 8.

Hi all,

I finished recently the weathering and renumbering on an Athearn GP35 (RTR model, HO scale). It depicts an ATSF unit, phase I in the mid to late sixties #1327, in a rather tired condition. I haven't dealt with any detail upgrades on this one yet (MU hoses, lift rings, coupler cut bars, new couplers) and i need to change number boards to the correct new road number. Luckily the Athearn factory yellow matched the Microscale decals (and my prototype photos) and i did not need to repaint / re-decal the whole shell (which i ll need to do in my Kato units...)

The Railway Modellers Meet of BC was held this past weekend in Burnaby at Simon Fraser University. North of 100 registrants took part in 3 days of operating sessions, layout tours, clinics and camaraderie.  I was part of the organizing committee so it was really nice to see everyone's hard work pay off.  A few of my personal highlights in the following post.

A recent purchase provided me with an bridge shaped packing piece of polystyrene, I guess in the US it is styrofoam.

We had an old back scrubber which needed replacing.  This was composed of wooden nodules which I removed before throwing the rest of the scrubber away.  I had 38 nodules and needed to complete the length of the proposed bridge.

I bought some plate girders and with some plaster soaked bandage I had enough to start.