The Hudson Bay Railway in HO Scale

My friend Scott is modelling the CPR Boundary Subdivision circa 1960 in his ample basement.  I am one of the regular operators taking part in his regular operating sessions on the layout, occasionally even working as the dispatcher - so far successfully avoiding crashing trains into each other.  Scott is busy building the layout and getting everything running smoothly.   I offered to weather some of his freight cars and he gladly took me up on the offer.  I grab a few cars (with permission!) and take them home to work on.  It is a bit of a change of pace to weather equipment for the early diesel era instead of the early 1980's.   The last batch I did for Scott included a double sheathed SP boxcar, a CP steel boxcar and a CP slabside hopper.  These were done with a mixture of oil washes, pin washes, acrylic paint and Pan Pastels.  I tried to get the wood SP car to reflect a well weathered car that was not far from the end of its service ...

Schist Lake Models  has started producing a variety of laser cut buildings in HO scale.  I have purchased several of these kits and finally got underway with them.  Thus far I have built a CN hose house, CN 1924 1 door freight shed and CN portable freight shed.  I've got the CN portable station and CN portable bunkhouse underway as well.  In addition I have several CN speeder 1 door sheds, a 4 door speeder shed, a small portable station, small tool house, and a small freight shed as well yet to be built.   The kits are a combination of laser cut wood and paper with nice board and shingle detail.  Everything assembles nicely with minimal hassle.  I painted the 1 door freight shed and portable freight shed in CN's white and black scheme with blue doors.  The portable station is painted in the earlier red brown with cream trim.  I'm planning to paint the portable bunkhouse in the cream/white with green trim scheme.  I have yet to ...