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Getting Real: Six YVRR boxcars

Gilbert_42320's picture

Need advice for future project once I level my scale modelling skills.

Thu, 2020-08-06 13:26 — Gilbert_42320

Hello everyone,

 This is my first post, and decided to join the forums after hearing about the magazine. I am a beginner in the hobby after my interest was rejuvenated so I am starting out by assembling model freight car kits and figuring out where to go next.

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IAIS's West End - Discovering a new customer - Ready Mixed Concrete

Thu, 2020-08-06 05:37 — IAISfan

I consider myself a strict prototype modeler...and happily so.  I like the boundaries that this approach provides, as they simplify life, help me focus on contentment in building with the things I have, and keep my spending in check.  Without those boundaries, I have a tendency to become more of a collector than a modeler.

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What's on Your Workbench - August 2020

Sat, 2020-08-01 03:11 — Eric H.

Here we are in August 2020! Share your latest workbench progress. Let's see what you have been building!

Eric

 

Eric Hansmann
Editor-at-Large, Model Railroad Hobbyist

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http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/

Cinder Conveyor Identification

Fri, 2020-07-31 22:22 — sanchomurphy

Hi everyone,

I have a mystery on my hands. Can anyone identify the cinder conveyors seen here in Willmar, MN on the Great Northern Railway? They were both installed in the mid 1940s to replace manual pits and were retired not much later.

Thanks!

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Middlebury VT new tunnel

Tue, 2020-07-28 18:02 — steamhog

Middlebury, VT has a new rail tunnel under construction fabricated from precast concrete.  This could be a unique scene to model.   Clearances in the new tunnel accomodate new equipment and the town green is improved.


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