Chesapeake & Appalachian Railway

This is a 1:24 scale tool shed from PRR standard plans. It is from a Train Stuff kit. The kit is urethane castings that are a bit thin, had heavy flash, and no roofing material is provided. Once cleaned up, reinforced and painted it came out nice. I added a metal chimney, an asphalt roll roof (tread tape) and raised it on a concrete base (painted foam board).

-Brian

Donovan’s Pub is my first scratch built structure. It is basically two building flats (front and back) of pink foam board covered with Precision Products veneers. The roof is 1/4″ hardibacker board also covered with PP veneer. It fits in a town block of Piko kit buildings.

-Brian

O’Brien’s is a Colorado Model Structures Virginia Mills Graining Co. kit. It was altered a bit by converting the wood vent stacks into brick chimneys. It sits on top of a section of old concrete sidewalk.

-Brian

The rolling stock section primarily covers motive power running on my railway with expanded entries on *kitbash projects.

Current running motive power
(Engine / Livery, ng denotes narrow gauge)

Steam Power

Dunkirk* - ng / CAR

C-16 - ng / CAR
C-16 - ng / PRR

0-4-0 / PRR

Dismals

Boxcab diesel* / CAR

RS-3 / B&O

FA-1 & FB-1 / NYC

E-8 / PRR

GP-7 / PRR

I became intrigued with this little logging locomotive after seeing a beautiful scratch built on the cover of the 20th anniversary issue of GR (Dec 2003). A Dunkirk is a variation of a Heisler except the cylinders are located inside the cab behind the firebox. More info can be found about them at http://www.gearedsteam.com. Being fairly new to large scale, though I worked in HO on and off over the years since my early years, I thought I could create a reasonable model of one utilizing unused rolling stock and off the shelf parts. I was quite influenced by Vic Smith and the many others who post their great creations online.

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