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A very nice article titled "Fixing the Cause of Derailments" was written by Paul Hurly and printed in the May 2026 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman.  Paul included this picture of my 86 foot CSXT patched auto-parts boxcar as part of his article.  It was a real nice surprise to see have my model included in the article with a picture of it ...

My "artist" paints have been getting pretty old and kind of dried out a little bit so I made a trip out to the local Michael's craft store this week. I was a little surprised that the price had gone up as far as it had, but I picked up tubes of water mixable oil colours Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber, a new 3/0 brush and a bottle of "Bittersweet Chocolate" craft acrylic.  ...

Spent a considerable amount of time the past couple of weeks organizing photos into folders on the laptop.  I had far too many pictures that just weren't "keepers", so I simply deleted those. But going through everything has certainly kept me busy.

With most of that done, I began trying to catch up on weathering some cars for other modelers. I got started on this R...

When I first started the JSSX, one of the things I wanted to do was have the shortline use leased power, which would provide some variety of locomotives and paint schemes.  I thought I'd show a few of the leaser engines that find their way onto the JSSX from time to time, which is really just code for I haven't really done much productive work on the layout in the last c...

A look this time at a whalebelly/dual diameter tank car (remember those) that I had for many years.  These tank cars are listed as being 67 feet 5 inches long, so kind of big.  A nifty looking car, I used to see these in the yard here at Sarnia fairly often, sometimes they'd be in short strings.  The prototype cars have all been taken out of service due to safe...