UNPX marked Cadomin Cars

Keith MacCauley passed along these extra photo to go along with his post last week. He indicates that these are the post 1976 built cars that were made artificially longer to comply with E60 Cooper Loading rules...George Dutka   

Amherst Ma. Station - ITLA Kit

A number of years ago ITLA offered a replica of the current appearance of the CV Amherst station. It is a nice model that I actually have, but still need to build. This model was on a modular layout this winter I visited at the Springfield train show. Mine will be modeled as it looked in the 1950's and 60's...George Dutka 

CV - New London, Ct.

It is 1983 with CV engines 4548-4924 are handling a van hop train this day. Theodore W. Bossert.

A look down into the yard at New London, Ct. the end of the line for the Central Vermont at the south end...George Dutka 

My Structures - Base Paint collection

Home Hardware Camo Coat spray cans are a nice option to paint your models. I have used all four of these. From left to right are Kaki, black, dark brown and olive. Olive is a green shade which I now use to paint my milk cars as it is pretty close to Pullman green. I can change the shade a bit using PanPastel powders. 

I recently had a back and forth e-mail discussion with Bob Van Gelder of South River ModelWorks regarding the base colors I use on my structures. Here is a bit of what I use. I also have some flat black spray cans I purchased at Walmart in the US a number of years ago for 99 cents each which works great too on structures. I stocked up on it back then...probably it costs lot more now...George Dutka 

Home Hardware in Canada has two primers that have worked good from me. They are grey and Red Oxide. I think these are available at Home Depot also.

These four tru-color paint spray cans are great to use. I don't have any problems with thickness or plugged tips.

Highbury Ave over CPR - 1957

When I lived off Hale St. in the 1970's a short drive from this location I remember my father in law telling me then that this area was out in the country and rural less than 20 years ago.

A work crew is seen atop the Highbury Ave-Canadian Pacific Railway overpass, as demolition begins on the old wooden structure. This view is looking south toward Dundas Street. Highbury Ave had been a two lane dirt road, one lane southbound and one lane northbound, but with the expansion of the City of London in the 1950s and into 1960s, it was necessary to have a 4 lane road to handle the projected traffic increases.

Now, almost 70 years later this overpass will be expanded to handle 6 lanes of traffic, with 2 lanes each direction for vehicle traffic and one lane each direction for public transit vehicles.  

July 9, 1957

London Free Press Negative Collection, Western University Archives, courtesy of Mike Rice  

SI Group - Rotterdam Jct.

Steve Myers photo, thanks Steve.

I thought this is an interesting shot I found on Steve Myers Facebook who also posts on the B&M Facebook page. Here is what he had to say about the car and Oh the plant is still working....George Dutka

SI Group/Schenectady International/Schenectady Chemical Company/Schenectady Varnish Works is at 1000 Main St., Rotterdam Junction, NY served by the B&M. The B&M turntable was located inside the industry in the 1970's.

This is what I saw on January 23, 2025 of the industry at Rotterdam Junction. George Dutka photo.

Wordless Wednesday No. 621

 

      

Weathering!

Photo by Hunter Hughson

Hunter recently posted this nice article on Facebook. His Facebook group called "Hunter Hughson's Crosstown Pickup" is what he is now using in place of his blog ...George Dutka

by Hunter Hughson 

Wet sanding to degrade the factory lettering, then mostly airbrush work for the paint failure and rust effects on the sides and ends. For this project I used Tamiya colours with Mr. Color Leveling Thinner and fine tip on the airbrush. I worked with dark reds and dark greys to come up with three rusty oxide colours for that bit.

The roof (which you can't see well in this photo) started with thinned blue/grey airbrushed over the entire roof (masked off of course) to tone down the factory silver followed by a simple enamel wash: AK grime wash over the whole roof followed by a rust color along the edge where the roof meets the side.

Reweigh patch is gloss black airbrushed using a cue-card mask held just off the surface of the model so the edges are slightly feathered. Decals for the new weights added to the patch then a light brushing of gloss to seal them in. COTS and Kartrak decals applied gloss patches that were brushed on. All of the glossy bits were blended in at the end when the final coat of clear flat was applied. Very light weathering over the new weight data but none applied to the COTS and Kartrak decals. I wanted those to look like they've only been on the car for a short time.

Trucks are were airbrushed with a dark grey then dark oxide coloured enamel washes.

Peace