Skip to content
  • Home
  • Models
  • Layouts
  • Operations
  • Other Articles
  • Posts By Category
  • About Ed

Conrail 1285

The model railroading website of Ed Kapuscinski.

Articles

Winter Forest Technique

11/03/201611/16/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

I realized I should probably jot this down for anyone looking to model winter forests.

Articles, Layouts, Models 1 Comment

Visiting Adam Henry’s CSX Hanover Sub

08/24/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

My friend Adam has a great layout based on the CSX Hanover sub in progress. I got a chance to visit the other day. Here are a few pics.

Articles

Cheap N Scale Buildings From China

05/01/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

I was recently browsing eBay for some of the IHC “Homes of Yesterday and Today”, and came across some N scale buildings I didn’t recognize. Having have been in the hobby for so long, this doesn’t happen often, so my interest was piqued.

Articles

DCC Installation in Micro-Trains SW1500s

04/01/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

There are some important precautions that must be taken when installing DCC decoders in Micro-Trains’s SW1500s.

Articles, Conrail Locomotives, Models 1 Comment

Getting started with JMRI Virtual Sound Decoders

03/21/201603/21/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

Virtual Sound Decoders bring sound cheaply and easily to N scale models. In this article, I’ll get started talking about my discoveries around them.

Articles

Conrail PUPs on the BANTRAK Layout

03/15/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

I know this is about 3 months late, but during the B&O Museum’s Holiday Festival of Trains, I got a chance to stretch the legs on my four EMD “pups” (end cab switchers) with a coal train.

Articles

Some steamy visitors to the real York PA

03/14/201603/14/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

Over the past few months, I’ve spent a bunch of time looking for good reference photos of York PA in the 80s. While I was doing that, I found a big surprise…

Articles

MMID GP38-3s arrive in York

02/11/201602/11/2016 Ed Kapuscinski

Some new Maryland Midland power has shown up in York. Back in 2004, I worked on a special run project with Atlas while at MB Klein: Maryland Midland’s GP38-3s. I didn’t buy a set, because I was a broke college student, but I’ve finally rectified that situation.

Articles, Models

February 2015 Ops Session at John B’s

02/08/2015 Ed Kapuscinski

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live in an area surrounded by fellow modelers. One of the perks of this is getting to participate in ops sessions on their railroads. I was able to do this at my friend John’s first “real” session.

Articles

Mounting Slide Switch Turnout Controls Anywhere

01/23/201501/24/2015 Ed Kapuscinski

Micro Slide Switches are a great way to control N scale turnouts, but they’re tough to solidly mount when you’re using something soft as your scenery base. I’ve developed a trick to solve that problem.

Articles

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Categories

  • Articles (39)
  • Layouts (67)
  • Models (38)
    • Conrail Locomotives (15)
    • MA&PA (1)
    • Penn Central Locomotives (1)
  • Operations (3)
  • Uncategorized (4)

Recent Posts

  • JFRTM on the Philadelphia Belt Line with YPFJ-41

     09/08/2020
  • What I’ve been up to: More TTRAK stuff

     09/04/2020
  • More PanPastel Weathering

     03/23/2020
  • February 2020 Anthracite Layout Update

     02/05/2020
  • My next project: Conrail in Coal Country

     10/16/2019
  • Making TTRAK Modules

     09/30/2019
  • All The Windsor St Layout Photos

     06/26/2019

Tags

Apartment Door Layout Atlas B23-7 1913 Ballast BANTRAK C30-7 6602 Construction DCC EMD GE GP7 5601 GP10 5863 GP15-1 1656 GP38-2 8097 GP Series How-To Layout Visits Maryland Midland MP15 9624 MP15 9627 MP Series NCR Shelf Layout NCR Windsor St Yard in York Layout Northern Central (NCR) N Scale Scenery Materials Operations Photo Backdrops Progress Photos Scenery SD40-2 6366 SD Series Structures SW1500 9590 SW1500 9594 SW Series Track Trees TTRAK U23B 2735 Visitors Weathering Winter Modeling Wiring York PA ZTS Maps

Archives

  • September 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • June 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • September 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • June 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • March 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • October 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • May 2013
  • January 2012
  • October 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • January 2011
  • October 2010
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • March 2009
  • September 2008
  • December 2007
  • October 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • January 2006

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Quill by aThemes