A Little Bit Of Weather

I attended our regional Train Show a few months ago and while there took part in a couple of workshops.
One of these work shops was about weathering your rolling stock and buildings using Bragdon Powders.
My first attempt at using this process was on an old box car that I brought to the show for this purpose.
My second attempt at using these powders was a few weeks later when I decided it was time to take the shine off one of my new Trueline Trains Caboose's.
You can really see the difference between the caboose on the left which is how it looks right out of the box and the caboose on the right which I weathered using the powders.
I see a lot of potential use for these powders which come in several shades.

Well here we are in the dog days of Summer.
I haven't doing a whole lot of constructing or modeling on my layout of late but I figured it was time anyway to post something new.
So I posed a couple of my locomotives and a few of my recently purchased Fresh Cherries Cars in Ashtown and took a picture.

Cars & Trucks

As mentioned in an earlier post cars and trucks help dress up the layout.
The past year has seen an abundance of HO scale vehicles available at a decent price.
Like this old Chevy owned by an employee of the local feedmill.

More Work To Be Done

Although a good bit of my layout has been scenic ed to some degree, I have not done much with the area in Shellville beside the main yard.
I presently have a feed mill kit that I am working on sitting there but when that is done it will become a vacant lot again.
Any ideas, anyone?

Seen Better Days

As mentioned in an earlier post I am phasing out my old wooden Juneco Caboose's.
In this picture you one of these so called phased out caboose's.
I am getting a little braver when it comes to scenery as well.
I recently placed a few trees around the caboose to give it that abandoned look.
The trees are Woodland Scenics trees. Not as nice as the trees done by my friend Scott Jay of Bayside & Tidewater fame .

A Little Weathering

Like my new caboose's several of my locomotives had that shiny or new look.
So one nice warm sunny weekend last summer I took my paints and compressor out side and set up shop on my back deck.
I weathered a few of my locomotives as well as rolling stock.
The RS-18's in the background of this picture are a result of that day.
Some day in the future I hope to build myself a nice paint booth, that way I can weather or paint year round with out getting into trouble with the C.E.O.

New Caboose's At Canadisle Rail

Another change taking place on my layout involves my older CN caboose's.
I recently bought three new Truline Trains Caboose's.
The detail on these caboose's are just unbelievable. Something that would rival brass.
With the arrival of these caboose's, I will be phasing out my older Juneco wooden caboose's.
They do need a little weathering though.