Category: Locomotives & Rolling Stock

PanPastel Artists� Painting Pastel – Burnt Sienna, 740.5 PanPastel Artists� Painting Pastel – Neutral Gray Shade, 820.3

It’s amazing how some decals and weathering can go so far towards making a model look “right.” In my last post I mentioned that I’d acquired a GP9 that didn’t quite pass muster, then talked a bit about my philosophy on whether I can overlook that or not (the answer: …

I will say straight off that, in general, I’m not a rivet counter. Yes, I want to be accurate, but so long as a car is pretty close to a prototype, I’m happy. I have more than a couple of cars whose paint scheme never appeared on that type of …

This photo shows the last car in Chessie paint with a non-CSXT reporting mark that I have seen in person. This photo was taken September 11, 2004 at Penn Mary. The Canton Railroad crew was doing some yard work while we were there, moving cars from the interchange into their …