After almost two months of laying low due to some leg injury issues, I am healed enough to get back to the construction of the railroad. Hopefully Monday we will be back on track (no pun intended). Not all has been lost however as there is always a host of projects to address in the model shop. This month has yielded several accomplishments.
The Scott truck fleet is developing. Scott Trucking was responsible to move product to and from the rail yard to the various industries off line. The primary type used was the flatbed style which was very handy and versatile for the differing products. I have finished the first of several needed. The correct lettering down to the original phone number was supplied by a friend in Quebec.
Bart Scott was quite the entrepreneur who also added a heating oil/kerosene business along with a service station and appliance store. I won’t have room for the service station and appliance store, but we can accommodate the oil storage tanks and pump platform that were a familiar scene at the end of the yard for many years. In fact I discovered that the tanks have survived unto this day, but now lay horizontal and are own by the Dead River Company in a different part of town. The lettering is yet to be applied and details added, but here they are.
The add-on rolling stock project of three different reefers is also nearing its end. The lettering has been added and weathering of the cars is next. The Armour and the mechanical reefer are scratch built, the former from basswood, and the latter from styrene. The CN 8 hatch is a highly modified Intermountain steel reefer kit.
I have to add weathering and proper trucks to complete them. One of the biggest challenges currently is obtaining the proper lettering. The Armour is a decal set from Protocraft and the CN cars used CDS dry transfers. My personal preference is the dry transfers, but the source of supply and the age of the existing product is getting to be problematic.
Hopefully the next time I write will be a report on the railroad itself.
Ben