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Call It Done: E-44 ‘Brick’ Tests the Calumet Belt Vision
Model railroading is all but unique among the model making hobbies for its tradition of blending fact with fiction—think prototype-based scale models of trains, but combined in imaginary ways, often running on imaginary or prototype-inspired rail lines. Longtime readers of my Up Dunes Junction and Sprue Pie With Frets blogs…
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My Proto-Freelancing Venture Takes Its First Steps
Primer and decidedly un-Pennsy details applied, now for major colors. This ancient brass Alco Models E44 was purchased for peanuts and fitted with a smooth Bowser/Stewart C628 drive. Now it will be road power for my new prototype-freelance project, Calumet Belt. Long live electric railroading in the diesel age!
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Kitbodged, Good-Enough HO South Shore GP7
At nearly the exact tween-age moment I started to make connections between the railroad books and magazines I read and the real railroads around me in my home Calumet region of Northwest Indiana—“the Region” to locals—my favorite local railroad was undergoing a major change. The Chicago, South Shore, and South…
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My Pacific Electric Box Motors in Railroad Model Craftsman
Posts here were light in September and October, and that was because this article on Pacific Electric box motors was in production for the February 2026 edition of Railroad Model Craftsman. Always rewarding to see one’s own work in print. Many thanks to RMC editor Otto Vondrak for his patience…
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