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Category: Locomotives

Katy’s Tru-Color

My search for a red-painted Missouri-Kansas-Texas diesel locomotive was going nowhere, so I decided to ‘take the bull by the horns’ and create my own. The M-K-T (Katy) owned a number of GP40 locomotives, and a number of them still wore red paint well into the nineteen-seventies. Fortunately, Spring Creek…

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Mopacmike November 11, 2020 November 11, 2020Blog, Featured, Locomotives GP40, HO-scale, Katy, M-K-T, Tru-Color Paint

Rolling Realism

According to the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), “Weathering railroad rolling stock is a subtle way of adding a bit of realism to your model trains.” Rarely do we see real freight cars with that “fresh from the factory” look. Most cars show signs of accumulated dust, dirt, rust, oil,…

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Mopacmike November 10, 2020 December 16, 2020Blog, Locomotives, Rolling Stock model railroading, weathering

Operating Session – Dec. 2019

A group of experienced model railroad operators and fine gentlemen were on board as The Eagle River Division hosted our annual December operating session and Christmas lunch on December 7th. Thanks to all who joined us. Special thanks to BNSFguy617 and to Mr. Ron Williams, both for participating in the…

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Mopacmike December 9, 2019 December 9, 2019Gallery, Locomotives, Operation, Rolling Stock model railroading, operations, trains

Working “The Beer Run” – Hoegaarden

In our last blog, our train had finished work at Westburg and was headed east to Hoegaarden, where it will work the Sherwin Williams Paint Factory and the Rock Bottom Brewery.   Our train left Westburg with ten (10) cars.  Eight of those cars are to be delivered to Hoegaarden.  Here…

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Mopacmike August 20, 2016 August 20, 2016Blog, Locomotives, Operation, Rolling Stock industrial, switching

Working “The Beer Run” – Waldo to Westburg

In this blog, we’ll explain how the engineer and conductor on today’s eastbound Waldo to Westburg to Hoegaarden to Lafayette train #77 (a/k/a The Beer Run) go about assembling their train, picking up and setting out rolling stock, and finally classifying their train upon arrival in Lafayette. Here’s a linear…

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Mopacmike August 19, 2016 August 19, 2016Blog, Locomotives, Operation, Rolling Stock industrial, switching
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