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.

Sunday, 13 April 2025

Ancaster Ont. Train Show

Some of Peter Mumby's engines

Last weekend was the Ancaster, Ont. train show near Hamilton. A lot of Peter Mumby's models were there for sale and lots sold. Here are some photos I took of his models before the show began...George Dutka

Steve Bratina was looking after selling Peter's engines. He checked them all out prior to the show...making sure everything worked well. Most or maybe all seen here are DC. They date back years, some to when he first got into the hobby.

Gary looked after selling Peter Mumby's rolling stock for his wife Ann.

A small portion of Peter's rolling stock that he either built or weathered.

Peter's collection of Geep's

4 comments:

Boh Hannah13 April 2025 at 19:33
My grandson bought the GP30 it runs beautifully!
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George Dutka14 April 2025 at 07:21
That's great to hear. Glad he got something of Peter's...George
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Steve Bratina14 April 2025 at 09:43
Peter’s engines have generated quite a bit of interest at the shows. His more modern stuff like N&W, CSX, Conrail, Via and CP Rail was usually purchased by the younger modeller while his older CN and CPR models found a home with the older guys. I bought several from Peter and have DCC and sound in most of them. Luckily I wrote down the story behind them and why he modelled that particular engine. I also have a CN GP 9 done by Bob that I think his Grandson should have. I will bring it along to the Ancaster show.
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