MODELER'S CORNERmodellerscorner@canadianrailwayobservations.com
The Diorama was made from Stefan Foerg from
Germany, his website:
www.dioramawelten.de
Welcome to Modeller's Corner. My Name is Nathan, and I will be taking over this page for the foreseeable future. This page is undergoing new makeover, as we enhance this page for a better future.
I wanted to start off with a small idea of what is available to the hobbyist. For those that don't know, there is a company that is also moving their business towards the future. This business is Pacific Western Rail System. This company was started by modellers, for modellers and many of the employees are modellers or family of modellers, 160 of these modellers world-wide make up the shareholders of PWRS. The goal of Pacific Western Rail Systems is making sure you the hobbyist, gets what you want...quality, price, and a Canadian product. Detailed research and development, along with state of the art manufacturing to ensure the highest quality and what you would expect from the 1:1 scale, which is made available in HO and N scale. PWRS has a program unique to our hobby, and also provides you with the most up to date items available. Aside from doing their own products, - with North American Railcar Corporation, PWRS also carries just about everything else, from Walthers, to Atlas, Intermountain, and more. So you are probably asking yourself, what makes PWRS different from Walthers, or Atlas...well a lot. YOU may not know this, but PWRS has a program called PORTERS (Personal, Order, Relationship, Tracking, Entry & Recording System). This program is like none other out there. Compared to anyone else, PWRS is unique in their approach. The PORTERS System allows you to see the most up to date product announcements and reserve the models you are interested in. You can track your reservations, and orders, and have access to the PORTERS Club Lounge where you can use your PORTERS Points to get special, limited run PORTERS Members Only Cars. When signing up with PORTERS, you send PWRS a message, and then one of the PWRS staff will call you to finish the process. They will guide you through the Reservation Sheet, order placement & tracking, the Goodie Box & account preferences. Below is a screen shot of my wife's and I's account. You will see a reference number in the bottom; this can be used to get more points when you refer friends.
Here is a caption from PWRS site on Porters: PORTERS is not just an on-line shopping cart, it’s a tool for you to see all new product announcements in one place (and place orders for them if you wish), see and track all past orders, control your shipping costs by controlling when and how your products are shipped, and search our product database – that’s got the entire Walthers catalog and MORE – using the most powerful, flexible and easy to use search tool in the industry. Best of all, you can have all this AND purchase products at attractive price discounts. AND if you have a problem or otherwise need help, we have a staff of service agents (we DO NOT have commissioned sales people anymore) that you can actually get a hold of to help you. But that's not all we offer: we offer a new frequent buyer/customer rewards program - PORTERS Points . PORTERS Points rewards you for purchases made using your PORTERS Account - rewards that can be used to purchase any product PWRS carries or to acquire unique, limited-run products from selected manufacturers. PORTERS Points will be awarded for all purchases made after February 1, 2009 - so don't wait to start purchasing using a PORTERS Account because you start earning rewards today.
With the PORTERS program, you are in total control of your order, form the products you select to your shipping. When you setup your account, you will only see those items based on your interests, and you can also view those items by selecting your favorite road name on your reservations sheet. You can setup your favorites even based on the era you model. By that If you only wanted steam engines shown, you can set it up to reflect that. With items coming in at various times, most places will ship them out as they come in. With PORTERS, you have the option to have these items placed in your “goodie box” and therefore, have them shipped all at once. With shipping, you have full view of the item from the time it arrives at the warehouse until it is shipped to your home or business. Members have access to view any past shipments or track shipments up to 90 days, eliminating the need to call, as you are treated like staff, and know where your item is at all times. Of note is the fact that NARC (North America Railcar Corporation) is a sister company of PWRS, and that NARC is the manufacture component to this great company. NARC, also does custom cars in both HO and N scale, only available through Porters. Porters also gives you advance access to special pricing not available to the general public
So if you have had trouble getting something from the internet or from your local hobby store or just tired of the constant delay’s and not knowing what is going on, give PWRS a try you won’t be disappointed with PORTERS. And being a PORTERS member, you will receive updates of new products before the general public does...There is a lot out there, and do you really want to miss that next car? So join up with Porters, you won’t be sorry…and please quote reference number YK4L3YL. Discounts and savings await you! Click below to sign up!
Nathan CRO Webmaster - email
Just Announced from Credit Valley
Announcements
Train Control System (TCS):
The new line of "WOWSound™" decoders by TCS will be shipping through out 2013.
World premiere! The unique HO FP9A 6532
This beauty's MRSP will be $329,95$ (US$ or CDN$). Available at Boréal Trains: 1. Business class: Pay only 325$ before march 31st 2013. On Business class, Boréal pays every Canadian tax for you. More, Boréal also assumes the shipping and handling for you (or the equivalent if you are not in Canada or 48 states); 2. First class: Be sure to get your 6532; send a 20$ deposit. We will stop taking reservations when the 99 ordered will be complete under those two classes; 3. Economy: Just leave your complete contact data to the undersigned. The 6532 will be sent to you under payment.
Denis
Côté - Boréal Trains
New in stock. N scale Fox Valley 50' FMC Railbox. $17.98 each.
Just arrived from Fox Valley Models in N scale. CP ES44AC locomotives in 3 new road numbers! $119.98 each.
Shipping to Hobby Stores From Atlas:
North American Railcar Corporation Announces High Performance MagnaLock Brake Lines
http://www.pwrs.ca/announcements/view.php?ID=7440
True Line Trains mentioned that they will be developing and soon releasing NSC 50' Exterior Post Newsprint box cars. An official announcement should make its way to TLT website in the next short while.
The first release will be 10 rib ends, 10' plug doors with either
straight or angled door posts. GTW, BCIT, BCOL, CNIS, and ONT.
Hurricane Sandy landed in New Jersey and New York on October 29, 2012, causing massive flooding and wind damage all across the Garden State. Atlas got off lightly, with minimal damage and a week-long power outage. However, many of our customers, friends and family across the great state were not so lucky and suffered great losses in this terrible event. Although the storm has long since passed, the rebuilding has only just begun. To help our compatriots in this matter, Atlas is producing the Hurricane Sandy "Save the Shore" Relief Hoppers. This show of support is decorated with stunning artwork of the dunes and scenery of our beautiful beaches and is available on a different model in each of the scales we offer--N, HO & O. All profits will go directly to New York and New Jersey based Hurricane Sandy related charities. For NY - Empire State Relief Fund: Endorsed by http://www.empirestaterelief.com/ For NJ - NJ Relief Fund: Chaired by NJ First Lady Mary Pat Christie http://sandynjrelieffund.org/ If you haven't helped out your brothers and sisters in the tri-state area yet, this is a fantastic way to do so while getting a handsome piece of rolling stock to run with pride on your layout. These models will be available exclusively through the Atlas Online Store. Please have your orders in by March 13th, 2013 for the N Scale model and April 12th, 2013 for the O Scale model. HO models have already been ordered and will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Click the following links to order
Thank you for supporting our endeavor. Also from Atlas:
N Scale
HO Cornerstone® Fire Dept. Kits
It’s obviously the 1960’s and the Atlantic Limited is passing through Beausejour, QC on the HO scale Canada Central Railway (AMFM Club in Montreal). Robert O’’Shaugnessy’s twin CPR RS10‟s (8596, 8577) lead his brass Tuscan Red CPR passenger cars past the crossing. (Photo by Yves Cloutier).
Sad news, as the Toronto club has held its finial run before closing their doors for good:
The nightmare of many modellers ...Canada's largest model railway ousted for
condo CRO GO TRANSIT News Editor Dan Dell'Unto just finished a model of CP GP9 8530 in HO scale, done up after it had been wreck-rebuilt in 1975. There's still a few things to add to it, but the majority of the hard work is done. This unit is a bit of an oddball in that along with having the early pointed chop-nose and rear sandbox, it was rebuilt with a GP7 long hood (modified with GP9 hood vents), probably off one of the other wrecks in the deadline.
Dan also included a few photos of some other models he is working on: some Tuscan Red and gray CP C424's and a custom SW1200RS, CP 1684 (ex-TH&B chop nosed GP7) and a CP passenger GP9 (whose GT long hood will be repainted into the usual CP colours...). His next big project will be a CP RAIL action red E8.
Cliff Holder submitted these pictures of his completed projects.
MLW C630 CN 2337 is built from a ‘Tiger Valley’ kit with much kitbashing etc, etc, powered by a 1836 Sagami can motor, chain driven to truck gear boxes, weathered model.
Modelling On A Budget Walter E Pfefferle One of the reasons model railroading attracts so many people is it allows you to participate at the level that you and your budget are comfortable with. Not everyone feels they need perfection but still enjoy building and operating their layouts. I fall into the category of low budget modeller and enjoy building many of the items on my layout. My creations may not win any prizes but meet my needs and also allow me to create many items from available items. I have been experimenting with building models by building a shell from card stock and then covering it with printed images of the actual building. I recently finished a model of the CN Station in Ingersoll Ontario. It has not been used in about 20 years and may end up being demolished this year. Here is a view of it I took back in August 2012.
The first step is to photograph the item you want to build so that the walls can be printed to use in the actual construction. The benefit is that all graffiti will be captured exactly as it is. Here is a view of the model of the station as I have covered most of it with photos that I have printed to size. I only had black ink so could not print the images in color.
I then added the baggage area and added a base and details. It make not meet some modellers level of accuracy but is a simple way to build some buildings quickly. If it is set a bit back from the main viewing area and some other details are added it would meet most applications.
The same process was used in converting 3 old coil cars into high sided coal gondolas. The real high side gondola was photographed and then images were created on the computer and the numbers were changed. Here we see the coil cars before they were converted.
A shell was built to fit the coil cars and then covered with the printed images. The process can be used to produce textures or anything to use on your layout. Here is a image of the layout used for the gondolas above.
A load was added along with some additional details and here is the finished product. The bridge in the photo was also built entirely of coffee stir sticks purchased at the dollar store and is a model of the Mill Street bridge in Woodstock Ont.
This process may not work for everyone but those that enjoy model railroading and don't have to have everything perfect, it may work for you.
Ontario:
Alberta
Windsor Model Rail Club (W.M.R.C.) http://www.windsor-modular.com/
Guelph Model Railroad Society http://guelphmodelrailroadsociety.com/
Model Railroad Club of Toronto http://www.modelrailroadclub.com/MRCT/Welcome.html
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club http://www.wrmrc.ca/
The Vermont and Essex Model Railway Club (Montreal, QC) http://www.chemindeferve.com/
Montreal Railway Modeler’s Association AMFM http://www.canadacentral.org/
The UMG http://theumg.ca/
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