The Hudson Bay Railway in HO Scale

Along with my blogs on the Hudson Bay Railway (this one) and another on my real life railfan adventures < here > I have another blog that I originally started on the Model Railroad Hobbyist site about 8 years ago.   That MRH  blog was my gateway to these more recent blogs and I still post there regularly, although now I tend to post a shorter version of what I post here with a link back here to continue reading.  Since I am inherently lazy I figure the easy way for future readers to read my older MRH posts is to put a link here to a list of the MRH posts.   Some I have redone here, others have not been transferred over as I outlined above.  If you feel like reading more of my nattering feel free to pop over to MRH: https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/42428#new    

The October 2021 Railroad Model Craftsman magazine has an article I wrote about the former Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C-424.  The Hudson Bay Railway bought the entire BRC fleet in 1999 but only the 604 was ever operational.   I started building the model prior to my decision to back date the layout from 1997-2000 to 1981-83.  I decided to finish it as part of my Covid-19 building blitz.  I tried to clear out my backlog of partially finished projects, with the BRC unit being one of the longer lived projects I had.  I started it circa 2003 and finished it in 2021.  I think that CN will occasionally lease a C-424 from BRC when they are short of power for grain shipments.  At least that is how it will work out in my world.   I was happy to get the C-424 completed and Otto at RMC was interested in an article about the build.  I must say I am quite pleased with his treatment of the article and accompanying photos.  If you happen across a copy of the magazine pick up a copy.  I am a subscri