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Alongside the work I’m doing on HO models and layout planning, I continue to build a few O scale models in O scale fine scale, or Proto 48 as it’s called. It’s a hobby within my hobby.

My last post on O scale models was published in December 2024, when I wrote about freight cars I was building for Tony Koester’s Proto48 Wabash High Line layout. That post ca...


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Merry Christmas! I hope you and your families are enjoying a blessed holiday season!

Since moving back to Germany last January, I’ve been planning on building a small layout in my upstairs loft. I’ve studied modeling Farmington, Lakeville and Chaska Minnesota on the former Milwaukee Road Hastings & Dakota (H&D) Division among a few other locations, and poste...


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Before getting to modeling, here’s some railway preservation news from the Southwest Germany that you never knew you cared about.

Back in August my wife noticed on the front page of our local newspaper, Die Wochenblatt, that a German steam locomotive on display in Kaiserslautern had been moved with great fanfare to the nearby town of Otterbach.

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It has been another very busy summer as my wife and I adjust to life in Germany and adjust to life as empty-nesters. Happily, time for model building is starting to pick up, although progress has been slowed somewhat by normal summertime activities like visits from the kids, travel, parties and so on.

Just over the hill here in Eulenbis are some wonderful “Wanderun...


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