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Reminder – NMRA Clinic Special Interest Discussion Group

Written by Anton Faulk
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Don’t forget that Jim Betz created a Special Interest Discussion Group last month called PNWRRModelers. It can be found at:

https://groups.io/g/PNWRRModelers/

PNW Railroad Modelers is a discussion group for model railroaders in the Pacific Northwest

To gain access you will need to click the “Join The Group” button and then make a post to it to introduce yourself to the other members. The first post will go to Jim and he will approve it (this discourages scoundrels) and you will be live from then on.

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More News From Triple T

Written by Al Babinsky
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Article & Photos By Al Babinsky

Last year the Triple T acquired another unusual piece of rolling stock, a Wismar Railbus from the SVG (Sylter Verkehrsgesellschaft) Sylt Transportation Company. The SVG operated a Narrow Gage, Meter gage, rail road on the island of Sylt in Northern Germany. The railbus was originally purchased by the Kriegsmarine {Navy}for transportation of personnel and cargo to their bases in the North and South of the island. After WWII the railbus became property of the Sylter Inselbahn (Sylt Island RR) the fore runner of the SVG. It was in storage until steam operation ceased in the 50ties and operation began with railbuses. The Wismar railbus was powered with two Ford engines one on each end, they powered the axle on their end. During operations one of the engines suffered major damage and could not be repaired. Instead of scrapping the railbus the SVG removed the engine hood and all and replaced it with a Borgward truck engine and front end. The LGB model represents this particular railbus T 25 and the sound system also represents the different sound of the two engines. When changing directions, the proper engine starts and you can tell the difference in the sound. The accompanying photos shows the railbus after the replacement with the Borgward front end, you can see the difference in the hood and the radiators. The photo of the camouflaged version during operation of the Kriegsmarine as apparent by the uniforms. This particular bus was number 22 and had a trailer number 14. The bar that you see hanging under the front end was the coupling bar for the trailer. I believe the person standing in front of the door was the conductor/driver of the bus and a civilian. You can see the writing in the white band says Sylter Inselbahn to give the appearance of a civilian operation, the fact was that the military had control before and during the war. The personnel of the railroad before the takeover stayed on during the war and afterwards the state took over and then turned it over to private hands.

  • Ford front end
  • Borgward front end

Al

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Nothing To Do?

Written by Anton Faulk
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Article & Photos By Greg Price

Thought I’d share my most recent “stay at home“ project. This is a standard DPM building with my own touches. Painted with spray paint followed by joint compound colored w/ gray acrylic paint. Then acrylic paint was used to paint window frames and corbels and lintels. I then weathered it with alcohol & India ink and Bragdon’s weathering powders. I made a sales showroom out of styrene as well as numerous washers, dryers, stoves and refrigerators. I then lit it with surface mount LED’s. I also used BarMills signs mounted on wire.
All in all a nice project for my city of Matheson!

Greg Price
Matheson & Western RR

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Time Well Spent At Home

Written by Anton Faulk
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By Alex Brikoff

This time at home could very well be a blessing in disguise. While people might be concerned with the next COVID-19 closure or announcement, I’m happy to announce that my layout is a Coronavirus free zone and that work is continuing on various projects on the layout. Having said that, I’d like to share with you a couple of photos of a set of Accurail Refrigerator cars that I built up recently. They feature Kadee whisker spring couplers, Athearn metal wheels replacing the plastic ones that came with a kit. Also, all the car numbers are unique. I did have to change one of the car numbers using techniques that were presented in last month’s “Decaling” clinic by Nick Muff and Al Carter at the Eastside Get Together Clinic. Finally, the cars were weathered using Bragdon Weathering Powders applied using a dry brushing technique.

I hope you enjoy the photos and are encouraged to work on your modeling projects while spending your time at home. Stay safe, stay healthy!

Alex

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Scratch Building

Written by Anton Faulk
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By Russ Segner

Mark Hills is a long time local model builder focusing on D&RGW.  He has weathered many of my collection of HO Rio Grande work equipment and cabooses.  I saw this posted on Facebook and though it a great and complete article on scratch building.  So, I am sharing it with his permission on the Grab Iron:

https://atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/8014/building-rio-grande-covered-finished%C2%A0

Enjoy and post some of your model building now while we staying home.

Russ

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