Category Archives: canadian pacific

Wordless Wednesday, Going with the Grain

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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

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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 | 8 Comments

Tsunami2 885013 DCC sound (sold STC)

More mancave reductions! I have two TSU-PNP 885013 Soundtraxx sound decoders for sale. Unused and unopened looking for £55 each. Please contact via the blog or through the Facebook page.

Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, finescale, free-mo, fremo, fremo module, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, man cave, mancave, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Thank You and Happy New Year 2019

Just a quick note to wish readers a happy new year and to say thanks for taking time out of your life, to read the blog. It means a lot that you visit, it really does, and it’s a pleasant … Continue reading

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Warley 2018 Rapido images

Firstly apologies for lack of narrative with this post, getting a few minutes around the show to grab images is challenging at times! Still here’s the Canuck stuff, and it looks to Rapido’s high standard The Tempo, I have no … Continue reading

Posted in blog, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, gmd-1, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, kadee, Kalmbach, Layout, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, new release, news, O Gauge, o scale, Ontario, OO, product news, Rapido Trains, research, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, True North, Uncategorized, usa | 6 Comments

Wordless Wednesday (Laramie)

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Wordless Wednesday (Cat checks out Rapido 1200’s and 3800’s)

And is even more astonished when shown the fugly GMD-1…

Posted in Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, cat, DCC, dcc sound, film, finescale, flying scotsman, gmd-1, Great Western, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hornby, humour, iphone, iphoneography, kadee, Kalmbach, life, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Rapido Trains, scale modelling, Scottish Region, Southern, Southern Region, sw1200rs, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, True North, Union Pacific, Western Region, wordless wednesday | 3 Comments