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Wordless Wednesday #1

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New and Repaired Freightcars

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This evening a worked on two freight cars at my newly set up workbench. These were two accurail kits lettered for the Boston & Maine. 40 Foot Hopper (Click on the images to make them bigger) This is an accurail kit that I purchased and built a few months ago. However, it was damaged by my cat while the car was sitting on my workbench a few weeks ago. After its trip to the hardwood floor, it essentialy reverted back to kit form. While the major parts fortunately did not break, its couplers did, so I replaced those with kadees. I will weather the car at some point. On the layout, it will be put into service hauling coal from the Canadian Pacific Railroad interchange in Calais. 40 Foot Boxcar This is an accurail 40 foot boxcar kit lettered for the Boston and Maine that I recently purchased and assembled tonight. It has, fortunately, no iteresting backstory and hopefully never will. I assembled it as per instructions, and have not yet weathered it. When I do so, it will be w

The Empty Room

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The room, ready for the layout.

Introduction

This blog is intended to document the construction of my HO scale layout and share it with others. The layout, which has not yet been started, will model the Maine Central Railroad in Calais (pronounced callous ), Maine and its branch line to Woodland/Baileyville, Maine, as it was in late November, 1953. I hope to document the construction of the layout from an empty room to (hopefully) mostly finished scenery. I will try to post on this blog at least once a week. Thanks for visiting!

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