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model railroading digital and analog modelmaking menu home about the website search for skip to content model railroading digital and analog modelmaking end of the line farewell posted on february 25 2015 by interurban era this is the end of the line for interacting with miniature railroading to follow future modeling exploits please visit my weathering man tumblr or follow my well curated style history and artistic reference blog the sunset empire thanks for all the good interactions the comments and the adventures i made some friends through this blog and went on some great modeling and railfanning adventures permanently galvanizing my interest in this great hobby the photobucket pro account linked with this wordpress account has been terminated so it will slowly stop working as bandwitdh exceeds the free account limit the writing in its varying quality will remain as will any other linked images it was quite an adventure in creating copious amounts of original content for the modeling community and was quite fun within the year i ll completely dismantle the site so grab what you d like from it just give me credit cheers my model railroad was featured in a short film posted on december 13 2011 by interurban era for the last couple of months i ve been quietly working on my model railroad finishing off hundreds of details all secretly for its premier in the downstairs girl a professional short film done by the film dep t at sjsu downstairs girl from ian irwin on vimeo the movie is a short romantic comedy about a younger awkward model railroader his close friend and a strong willed and beautiful lass the big city hobbies hon30 minitrains 0 4 0 mining set review posted on october 12 2011 by interurban era surprisingly great the minitrains 0 4 0st saddle tank the new re release of the almost forty year old tooling of the much loved ahm minitrains has caused quite a stir among the narrow gauge modelers this year they came out with the plymouth diesel model first and this summer they debuted this fine little 0 4 0 with a completely new motor thank goodness and plenty of updates both cosmetic and mechanical it sure is a neat thing to have for the uninitiated hon30 is ho scale 1 87 that depicts 2foot six inch gauge 30 which fortunately is n scale track 30 gauge operations were found all over the world and was popular in the americas for industrial mining and logging operations one should look at all the resources that has sprung up for on30 to more fully research some of these prototypes as hon30 isn t a popular gauge to model yet hopefully these offerings from big city hobbies will change this bch made a classy move by deciding to use the original 1960 s era box art shared with its ahm predecessor the box arrived in the mail today and once opened revealed a neat collection of 8 pieces of rolling stock and of course the porter the red driver inserts were also included for the modeler who wants the original look for his little steamer quizzically there aren t any instructions or documentation of any type that came with the set i suppose if you re buying something like this you re already an advanced enough modeler not to worry about anything an exploded isometric view parts diagram of the little locomotive would have been a nice addition though but alas the cars are all sharp injection molded plastic side dump cars of two types the vee type was built by the irwin sensenich corporation the box style by american car foundry these could be used to move any commodity that an open hopper typically carries coal gravel clay sand ash ballast stone iron pellets metal ores dirt etc the cars themselves are extremely light almost featherweight be careful when shoving them around your layout they have a tendency if not loaded with something to jack knife the nicely machined metal wheels do give them a nice low center of gravity and track very well their unusual loop couplers must be of period european vintage despite the cars weight these little loop couplers work reliably when filled with loose live loads i used decomposed granite they track very well and seem pretty content to ride behind the little 0 4 0 that s not to say that the empty cars don t perform well unloaded just don t sneeze or you ll find them in the next county the locomotive itself is small and i mean small it s the same size and length as a scale ford f 150 pickup truck the miniscule 26 drivers are smaller than even the lifelike 0 4 0t docksider in n scale and the little stephenson valve gear works hard at any speed above a crawl this adds a flurry of whirling siderods as your little saddletank locomotive plods along at 15 scale mph the prototype for this model is not a porter as advertised it s a baldwin 0 4 0st mastiff in the baldwin catalog parlance model no 4 10 c for some reason bch got it in their head that it s a porter and have adorned it with a remarkably beautiful builder s plate for their company i plan to leave it on because it s an excellent piece of laser printing but i d like to see this remedied in the future releases running characteristics i m sure everybody wants to know how this little beauty runs right out of the box it ran beautifully and quiet it has a really bright led for a headlight that came on at low voltage and remained constant throughout the throttle settings it obviously can go much faster than its prototype ever could but once you break it in at fast throttle for half and hour in each direction you can really get it to crawl around your layout just as it should it s pretty strong too i filled the mining cars with heavy crushed granite and it easily pulled all 8 loaded cars around my not so even mainline gear noise is minimal and probably will disappear completely as it breaks in it s pretty heavy considering its size and plastic shell the interior is almost entirely weight and motor and since it s an 0 4 0 all of that weight goes on the little 26 drivers detail wise it s pretty unchanged from the original except for the led light it has all molded on detail save for a separate nice looking bell casting the only cheesy details it posses are a sledgehammer and pick molded to the back of the cab other than that it s a pretty crisp casting and the domes drivers and smokebox front look great expect to pay between 100 80 for this set depending on where you shop you ll need n gauge track and a transformer for this set as it only comes with the locomotive and rolling stock french high speed rail improvement project posted on october 9 2011 by interurban era this excellent video depicting the upgrading of sncf s system to 21st century standards has a brilliant twist watch it to see if you re curious and know french there s a fun behind the scenes video covering how they made it hon30 combine project posted on october 9 2011 by interurban era i unearthed my small box of old hon3 projects the other day in anticipation for the new hon30 layout and a recent purchase from teebee models on shapeways netted by 12 pairs of 3d printed archbar trucks to mount on the new equipment one of which was a decrepit gorre daphetid combine car i kitbashed from a destroyed older mdc sierra angels branch combine i m debating whether to go with n scale or z microtrains couplers or the ugly hook loop european couplers any thoughts i still have a lot of detail to add to this car not least of which is the end handrails brake rigging and finishing off the interior it s fun to model ho narrow gauge though it s a change of pace the car itself isn t as perfectly proportioned as the monterey salinas valley s 1 but i suspect i might build a second one of these soon death of a locomotive posted on october 8 2011 by interurban era this beautiful film shot around rome in the 1960 s tells a familiar story to any railroad historian check out the interaction between the people living near the deadline and the locomotives also of note is the really neat space suits they used for oxy acetylene cut off torches i wonder if this was done for the movie or if they actually wore those my foray into hon30 posted on september 25 2011 by interurban era i began building an hon30 layout last week to serve one of the large industries on my layout deciding on a way to jump into this scale wasn t hard at all the re release of the minitrains from the 60s by big city hobbies seemed like just the right approach at first i was skeptical before reading that the entire drive mechanism has been redesigned for smoother operation both the plymouth diesel set and the h k porter set looked tantalizing but i went with the porter for the sole reason that it d be amusing to have such a diminutive steam locomotive i found this great video showing it running perhaps one of the best overall tv overviews of railroads posted on september 24 2011 by interurban era i d have to say back before reality tv eroded tlc the learning channel into little more than a freakshow shows like extreme machines ruled the airwaves i have to admit having seen dozens of television shows take their stab at portraying railroads in an overall view extreme machines is the one show that got it right the cinematography is excellent the music superb and the narrator s commanding voice providing a truthful tone to the facts being presented makes it stand out above the rest the episode itself is nicely balanced between the old and the new the show steam locomotives in a reverent light without being hyperbolically nostalgic or tossing them in the dustbin of history as obsolete beasts they approach the modern subjects with an honest optimism that rails are still the most efficient of the land based forms of transportation the quality of the yt video isn t hd but i think you ll get the picture art deco vitrolite storefront monaco lounge posted on september 17 2011 by interurban era built for a client the monaco lounge is everybody s favorite gin joint in town make sure to order some top shelf cocktails when you re there the building was built from the front wall of dpm s pam s pet shop the side wall being from another dpm kit for more depth the storefront was scratchbuilt from various plastruct styrene thicknesses and finished off in a period moss green vitrolite with a smoky gray trim add some nice stainless steel trim pieces and it s straight out of any downtown in the 1930 s wisconsin central remote control caboose posted on august 2 2011 by interurban era while railfanning in escanaba mi this summer i visited the ore docks with permission we took a few photos around the yard and saw this unique looking caboose obviously ex wc heritage this caboose had been modernized for pushing long cuts of taconite ore cars to the docks for loading and unloading it s fully equipped with locomotive twin sealed beam headlights on either end two single note horns a bell and other details that would make this one great project for a modeler i wonder who if anybody makes this design of caboose in scale who built the original caboose the closest model i can find would be rapido s new angus car shops model but that s a canadian prototype posts navigation older posts search for modeling topics modeling topics select category 15 gauge 5 scale architecture art asides business critique fun fun places to visit gallery garden scales 1 20 1 35 hidden history ho layout ho scale industrial design interesting websites to visit kitbashing layout tour lego trains locomotives misc modeling gaffes modular railroading n scale n scale layout narrow gauge o scale on30 photography portraits of steam locomotion railroad operation real railroading scale plans scratchbuilding the mixed freight trackplanning uncategorized weathering yosemite valley create a free website or blog at wordpress com model railroading blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed model railroading join 67 other subscribers sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy model railroading view site in reader manage subscriptions sign up 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