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Category Archives: canada
Monday Motivation, Lance Mindheim
The image above is a photograph from an iPhone of an HO switching layout by Lance Mindheim . It’s an image of nothing in particular, and that for me makes it all the more noteworthy and inspiring, motivational etc etc! … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, america, americana, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, Cameo layout, canada, DC, DCC, dcc sound, finescale, free-mo, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Industrial, Inspiration, iphoneography, Layout, life, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, railroad, railway, realism, scale modelling, skill, toy train, usa
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Royal Mail Scam Delivery Shipping
At the moment many of us modellers (and our families) are using the postal services that get mail order products delivered. Obviously this increase means that there’s potential for the bottom feeders to attempt to rip people off. The above … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blog, blogging, book, brassmasters, canada, Comet Models, DCC, decals, europe, finescale, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, insurance, internet shopping, Interweb, life, man cave, mancave, media, model, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, on line shopping, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, postage scam, product news, Rapido Trains, reference, review, royal mail, scale modelling, scam, shelfie, shipping, shopping, social media
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Transformation Tuesday, Going with the Grain
Working on several projects simultaneously is common for me, and the grain cars here are no exception. With significant changes at the house it made sense to use some of the time available to kick start Shelfie4. Going between Shelfie3 … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, americana, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, exactrail, finescale, free-mo, freelance, fremo, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, justdoit, kadee, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, nmra, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, prototype, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, research, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie3, shelfie4, tangent, toy train, Toy trains, train set, trainset, transformation tuesday, tuesday transformation, Uncategorized
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Throwback Thursday Exhibitionist…
A bit of a home exhibition here some seven years ago! This pic popping up on a Facebook feed this week. All three, Albion Yard, Bawdsey, and Shelfie, (WIP foreground) have subsequently left the building. The reason for them all … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, america, architecture, Bachmann, bawdsey, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, covid-19, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, EM, Exhibition, finescale, Great Western, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, life, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, nmra, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, prototype, railroad, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, shelfie4, tangent, throwback thursday, thursday throwback, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, train show, Uncategorized
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Wordless Wednesday, Going with the Grain
Posted in america, americana, Bachmann, blog, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, exactrail, finescale, free-mo, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, nmra, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, tangent, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, Uncategorized, usa, wordless wednesday
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Requiem For Steam
A year or so back I took a look at Essential Witness and Transition by Jim Shaughnessy and Colin Gifford respectively. This week our ever genial postie tapped on the door and left this gem, Requiem For Steam. If you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in america, americana, Art, b&w, Bachmann, black and white, blog, book review, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, dapol, finescale, Hattons, heljan, history, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, journey, Kalmbach, Layout, library, life, man cave, mancave, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, monochrome, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Photography, Rapido Trains, realism, reference, research, review, travel, Uncategorized, Union Pacific, usa
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Throwback Thursday, Happy Christmas
Well, 2020! This should probably be a #throwbackthursday post, not just because it’s a Thursday, but if you actually caught 2020, you’d certainly want to throw it back.. 2021 will have to go some to make it as memorable as … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, accurascale, aviation, Bachmann, blog, blogger, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, christmas, christmas show, DCC, dcc sound, film, finescale, fremo, Friends, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, media, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new year, new zealand, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, planet industrials, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, social media, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized
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Motivation Monday Southern Alberta Rail
As many friends and quite a few readers know I have a thing going on ref North American and Canadian short lines. I’ve primarily worked in HO (see above), but not long ago Chris Mears of Prince Street turned my … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, america, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, free-mo, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iain rice, Ian Futers, Inspiration, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, skill, southern alberta rail, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, usa
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VE Day
Written in 1944 by John Edmonds, the following epitaph seems particularly appropriate in these times. When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
Posted in 2020, america, australia, aviation, blog, bomber command, canada, east kirkby, epitaph, europe, Friends, great britain, hero, history, Inspiration, iphoneography, john edmonds, john maxwell edmonds, just jane, Lancaster, life, new zealand, news, nx611, Old school, pilot, poem, remember, remembrance, Uncategorized, united kingdom, usa, ve day, victory europe, world war two, ww2
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Essential Witness and Transition
Essential Witness and Transition are two books that do that rare thing of capturing the railway in an engaging and artistic way. Each book contains the work of one photographer, Jim Shaughnessy for Essential Witness, and Colin Gifford for Transition. … Continue reading
Posted in b&w, black and white, blog, blogging, book, book review, Branch Line, British Rail, canada, copyright, history, hobbies, Inspiration, Layout, library, life, man cave, mancave, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, monochrome, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Photography, product news, railway, research, review, scale, scale modelling, seasons, skill, skillset, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, travel, Uncategorized, usa
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