The FedEx man arrived today. He delivered my 6 new InterMountain AC&Y boxcars. All with unique road numbers I might add. How cool. These cars are the first AC&Y rolling stock I have that was not searched from old stock on dusty back shelves of hobby shops or e-Bay. It feels good to see manufacturers [...]
A common site on railroads is the unit train. This is an entire train devoted to a single delivery of a single commodity to a single customer. Coal is often shipped to power plants in long unit trains. On the LK&O Mettiki Coal, located in Table Rock MD, ships unit trains of bituminous coal from [...]
Check this out. An Accurail AC&Y boxcar. This is the first Accurail boxcar to join my fleet of AC&Y rolling stock. Thanks eBay! I have learned that model railroaders call this kit, and the Athearn kits in previous posts, “shake the box” kits. Easy enough to understand where that name came from. I like shake [...]
Few things can compare to having a wife that truly loves you. I am blessed so. This whole model train thing began as a Christmas present from my wife. Had a casual observer been present at our house on Christmas morning the big box under the tree must have seemed like a rather childish gift [...]
I accidentally stumbled across 2 more AC&Y box car kits so I had no choice but to press the Buy Now button. The Athearn kits took on a new specialness with the recent announcement that Athearn has discontinued the long running Blue Box kits. It is a shame the BB kits will not be available [...]
Google is my friend. The mere fact that I can search countless hobby shop inventories from the comfort of my home is amazing. We live in a rural area which is a little piece of heaven on earth however one penalty we pay is the fact that it is a minimum 3 hour round trip [...]
…the Akron Canton and Youngstown RR is not a fallen flag? …the AC&Y interchanges CN at Delphos and CSX at Mogadore? …unit grain trains move from Michigan to western Maryland? …endless coal drags move from western Maryland to Michigan? …everything is 1/87th size? …some guy is having a blast in his basement? You would be [...]