State of the Layout – Doubleheaders Tour 2024
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
5d ago
It has been a while since our last blog post, so we thought a quick status update may be in order to show some of the exciting projects we’ve been working on over the winter. Also with the 2024 Doubleheaders Tour date quickly approaching, this will serve to advertise some of the new things you can expect to see if you make the trip to Maryhill. Victoria Mine Spur (INCO – Crean Hill) Located approximately 45km west of Sudbury, this area is situated on the southern-most end of the Sudbury Igneous Complex. The original Victoria Mine was opened in 1906 after a vein of copper-nickel ore was discove ..read more
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WRMRC Fall Open House – Saturday 14 October 2023
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
6M ago
The Waterloo Region Model Railway Club cordially invites you to our Fall Open House on Saturday October 14th, 2023. Here is your chance to see everything we have been working on over the past year. The layout be open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Feel free to invite any friends or family members interested in model railways, and plan on a fun day of train watching and socializing. For maps and more information visit our WRMRC website, or our Facebook page. Extra 5025 East rolls under the LaSalle Blvd bridge on the CP Sudbury Division Layout. Admission: Adults: $5.00 Seniors and Students: $3.00 ..read more
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Begin/End CTC Romford
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
6M ago
Our big push for the Doubleheaders Tour this past March was to finally fill in the scene at Romford ON, the junction where the Parry Sound Sub from Toronto joins in to the Cartier Sub. This finally enclosed and hid the helix we had built in this corner of the layout that carried the tracks from the Parry Sound Sub staging yard to the upper level deck where Romford is situated. But really the scenery was just roughed in at the time, and many more details were required to finish the area. Our upcoming Fall Open House has provided us with a cause to continue the scenic efforts from here further d ..read more
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WRMRC at Breslau Train Show – Sunday 24 Sept 2023
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
6M ago
The Waterloo Region Model Railway Club will have a display at the Breslau Model Train Show this coming Sunday, Sept 24th, 2023. Some of you may remember this as the former Paris Train Show. It may have a new location, but it is still the same great show presented by the Western Ontario Division – Niagara Frontier Region NMRA. There will be more than 75 tables of manufacturers and retailers available, and at least five operating layouts on display. Also there will be NMRA craftsmen showing how they build their models, free public clinics, and door prizes. More information can be found here: htt ..read more
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C&BT Shops Boxcars
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by Ted Kocyla
7M ago
During my latest kitbashing job, it occurred to me that probably few modellers today have ever heard of C&BT Shops boxcar kits. Back when they first came out in the late 1980s, these were a big deal. After years of nothing but generic ‘Blue-Box’ boxcars from Athearn and MDC, HO-scale modellers were being supplied with affordable, yet good quality models with separate detail parts. We now had kits to build specific prototype models, like the PS-1 from McKean, or the 1950s-era AAR boxcar from Front Range. The C&BT Shops kit added to the variety by offering the 1944-AAR designed boxcar, a ..read more
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Intermodal Traffic via The Soo
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by Ted Kocyla
9M ago
Over twenty years ago when our club began holding its first operating sessions, we had to employ a lot of stand-in equipment to fill up our freights. Accurate HO-scale ready-to-run Canadian prototype models were only just starting to come into existence in the early 2000s. At the time our members understood most of the equipment we required would have to be assembled either from kitbashed US-based models, complicated resin kits, or built completely from scratch. We are very grateful (and relieved) that this didn’t turn out to be the case, as Rapido, Bowser, Atlas, North American Railcar, True ..read more
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Rapido TOFC Flatcars and Trailers
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
10M ago
An order deadline is coming up soon for some very important models required by Canadian rail-modellers in general, and for us working on the CP Sudbury Division layout specifically. These are for Rapido Trains’ latest announcement of CP and CN specific piggyback flatcars, along with 26ft and 45ft Canadian-built Can-Car and Trailmobile trailers to haul on these flats. Basically, if you are modelling any mainline of either of Canada’s two principle railways between the late 1960s to the early 2000s, you need these models. Or for that matter if you’re a US mainline modeller in that era, you may w ..read more
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The Action Red Era (Part 2) – Locomotive Paint Scheme Variations
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by Ted Kocyla
1y ago
Introduction: Genesis of the Action Red Era (Part 1) The following is a list of CP Rail paint schemes applied to motive power over the course of the Action Red era, with a few photos to help illustrate these variations. A list of references are also included which not only assisted in this research, but come highly recommended as excellent reference materials for all CP Rail modellers. CP Rail – Action Red Era Variations 1968-1993: A5L – (Action red / 5” front & rear stripes / Large Multimark) The original ‘Candy Stripe’ road unit scheme – Sept 1968 to Oct 1975 Entire unit above frame pain ..read more
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WRMRC at the Kitchener Train Show – Sunday 19 March 2023
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
1y ago
The Waterloo Region Model Railway Club will have a display at the Kitchener Model Train Show being held Sunday, March 19th, 2023. The show will be at the Bingemans Conference Centre (Marshall Hall) located at 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener ON from 9:30am to 3pm. More information can be found on the collectorshows.ca website, and on their Facebook page. The show features many vendors, displays, several operating layouts, and railway memorabilia. Our display features both club and prototype photos of the area modelled, a video of club operations, and displays of various modelling project ..read more
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Doubleheaders Layout Tour – Saturday, 25 March 2023
Waterloo Region Model Railway Club Blog
by admin
1y ago
The Doubleheaders Layout Tour is back! On Saturday, 25 March 2023, our club’s CP Sudbury Division layout will be open to the public in participation with the annual Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph and area tour, organized by the Doubleheaders Model Railway Club. This is a self-guided tour of a large number of club and private home layouts in the area. Though there were a couple of virtual Doubleheaders tours held during the pandemic, this will be the first actual, in-person layout tour since 2019. If you are new to the Doubleheaders tour there are over 30 different layouts you can visit, v ..read more
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