White River Division

Welcome, follow along with George Dutka in his journal which documents the additions and future thoughts for the HO scale White River Division model railroad and to his continuing historical New England railroad research. The White River Division is now in its 17th modeler's season. The "modeler's season" runs from November to April each year. Inspiration comes from the Boston and Maine, Rutland and Central Vermont Railway during the 1950's with additional posts by Don Janes and Peter Mumby.

Tuesday 29 August 2023

Brantford Finds

What I came home with from Brantford a few weeks back.

Although there was lots to purchase I kept my cool and picked up three items that cost me a total of $5. The chopper is a nice size to take to our WOD-NMRA workshops at train shows...for $3 it was a steal. The two Scale Rail kits are CP old resin models from years ago which have a lot of warped parts. There is enough in the box that is OK that I can use to come up with a few structures. For a $1 each nothing lost if it does not work out. The instructions says to heat the parts to bend back into shape. I will show you the parts at some point. I feel any resin kit should have bracing added as I have seen this type of warping before with finished kits in past...George Dutka

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Eric31 August 2023 at 08:25
Who doesn't love train show bargains? I know I do. It's all about....what can I use this for and getting the creative juices flowing. Low-cost model railroading at its finest!
Thanks for sharing,
Eric
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George Dutka31 August 2023 at 17:59
Hi Eric
Yes everyone loves low-cost modeling...will see what I can do with these two kits...George
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