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Bonjour à tous,
Je sais que certain d’entre-vous sont abonné à mon infolettre, mais qui n’ont de l’intérêt uniquement pour les autobus et les voitures.  Pour tout ceux qui adore recevoir les informations sur les trains ET les autobus, RIEN NE VA CHANGER et vous N’AVEZ RIEN À FAIRE. ☺  Pour ceux d’entre-vous qui le désire, je peux mettre votre courriel dans ce nouveau groupe d’envois.  Si vous me répondez que vous désirez uniquement les nouvelles des autobus et voitures, je vais vous changer de groupe d’envois (malheureusement, cette option de paramètre ne vous est pas disponible sur votre profile, mais est très facile pour moi !).
Merci de votre fidélité et bonne année 2024.

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Hello everyone,
I know that some of you subscribe to my newsletter, but only have interest for buses and cars. For everyone who loves receiving train AND bus information, NOTHING WILL CHANGE and you DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. For those of you who wish, I can put your email in this new mailing group. If you tell me that you only want news about buses and cars, I will change your sending group (unfortunately, this parameter option is not available to you on your profile, but is very easy for me to set-up!).
Thank you for your loyalty and happy new year 2024.

Ciao…
Philippe

Kalmbach new how to books available now!

You see something that you want, e-mail me : clubtraindirect@outlook.com.I’ll special order it just for you!
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Allen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio
Allen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio – #12844 – Softcover, 112 Pages – 21.99$us
Allen McClelland encouraged modelers to look at their layouts not as stand-alone entities, but as links in the North American rail system — looking beyond the basement. Take a look at Allen’s HO scale Virginian & Ohio layout, one of the best-known layouts of all time. This inspirational layout pioneered many concepts that later became standards in layout design.

Allen became well-known not just for his V&O’s realistic scenery, setting, and theme, but for showing us how to:

  • Use walkaround command control to take advantage of linear track plans
  • Choose a railroad name and theme that reflect prototype regions and railroads
  • Adopt operating procedures based on prototype practices

Modeler's Guide to the Right of Way
Modeler’s Guide to the Right of Way – #12840 – Softcover, 112 Pages – 21.99 $us (Sale: 18.98$us)
The Modeler’s Guide to the Right of Way from Kalmbach and Model Railroader Magazine takes you trackside for a deep dive into the equipment and practices that get railroads across the landscape. It provides the details that keep railroads running, and how to incorporate them into your modeling for a more realistic layout. From the track itself, through the roadbed, and out into the weeds at the edge of the right of way, noted author and modeler Jeff Wilson shares the details that keep railroads running, and how to incorporate them into your modeling for a more realistic layout.

Modeler’s Guide to the Right of Way includes:

  • Prototype photos and information, as well as modeling tips
  • Track and roadbed, including rail, ties, spikes, turnouts, switch stands, and ballast
  • Grade-crossing details including flashers, gates, towers, and crossing materials
  • Trackside details such as defect detectors, communication lines, and equipment scanners
  • Signs, such as mileposts, whistle posts, warning signs, speed-limit signs, and flanger posts

Model Realistic Freight Car Loads
Model Realistic Freight Car Loads – #12840 – Softcover, 112 Pages – 21.99 $us (Sale: 18.98$us)
Model Realistic Freight Car Loads from Kalmbach gives many prototype examples of freight car loads from common to unique, and from small to large. Follow along with tons of pictures and drawings showing how to realistically secure loads and operate them. There are hundreds of types of loads, including machinery, heavy equipment, pipe, beams, lumber, boilers, generators, transformers, and many others. The challenge in modeling is making freight car loads for your model railroad more realistic!

This book by noted railroad historian and author Keith Kohlmann will guide you in making your models more realistic by following prototype practice in securing loads and operating them. Included are a lot of photos of real loads, drawings showing how real railroads secure them to cars, and several modeled examples with tips on making model loads as realistic as possible. Inside, you’ll see a variety of types of loads, including:

  • Farm machinery and heavy equipment.
  • Steel and metal products.
  • Buses, trucks, cars, and other vehicle loads.
  • Forest products and building materials.

 

? On the road again… / De retour sur la route… ?

Bonjour à tous,
Voyant que la pandémie commence à s’essoufler, j’ai pu recommencer à reprendre une partie de mes plaisirs d’autrefois : des voyages pour voir des trains!  Ouin, pour mes clients amateur d’autobus, je suis revenu bredouille en photo!  Oui, j’ai croisé des Greyhound en direction de Boston (autant à Burlington (VT) qu’à Concord (NH)), mais j’étais au volant à toutes les fois, donc impossible de prendre une photo!  Voici un petit “re-cap” de mon dernier mois :

Hello everyone,
Seeing that the pandemic is starting to run out of “steam”, I was able to start resuming some of my former pleasures: trips to see trains! Yes, for my bus-loving customers, I came back empty-handed! Yes, I met Greyhounds in the direction of Boston (as much in Burlington (VT) as in Concord (NH)), but I was driving all the time, so impossible to take a picture! Here is a little “re-cap” of my last month:

May 9th, 2022 – Farnham, QC – Local switching : Gelpac Poly.

May 18th, 2022 – Burlington, VT – New England Central transfer run arriving at Vermont Railway Burlington yard. + Local switching : Global Co LLC with the tank train + NECR Leaving Burlington to go back at St-Alban’s home Yard.
             

     

May 21st, 2022 – North Conway scenic RR, North Conway, NH – Train ride in dome car with my kids!
     

Vive l’isolement… Quand y fait “frête”! // Easy distancing when it’s SOOO cold!

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis curieux, quand il fait un grand froid comme celui qu’on vit présenetement, sur quoi vous travaillez présentement ?  Pour ma part, j’entreprends un travail de plusieurs heures, que mes filles m’ont imposées! ☺  Oui, oui, mes deux filles (7 et 9 ans) ont décidéés, je ne suis même plus le boss de mon réseau! ☺ Comme je modèle une petite partie de la ville de Magog, je dois produire l’endroit où leur maman travail!  En plus, dans la vrai vie et tout comme sur mon réseau, la voie passe juste en arrière (mais ne déssert pas la boulangerie).  Je ne peux même pas faire un “kitbash” pour accélérer le projet, il n’y a pas de kit qui existe avec ce style assez particulier (la photo du modèle est en haut à droite).  Par chance, Pikestuff offre un bon départ et toute les “texture” sont disponibles pour ce projet de “scratchbuilding”. Si vous désirez partager vos projets, vous pouvez écrire des commentaires à cet article ou me les envoyer par courriel…

Hello everyone,

I’m curious, when it’s very cold like the one we’re currently experiencing, what are you working on now?  For my part, I undertake a project of several hours, which my daughters imposed on me! ☺ Yes, yes, my two daughters (7 and 9 years old) have decided, I’m not even the boss of my layout anymore! ☺ As I model a small part of the city of Magog, I have to produce the place where their mom works!  In addition, in real life and just like on my layout, the track goes just behind (but does not serve the bakery). I can’t even do a “kitbash” to speed up the project, there is no kit that exists with this rather particular style (the photo of the model is at the top right). Luckily, Pikestuff offers a good start and all the “textures” are available for this scratchbuilding project. If you want to share your projects, you can write comments to this article or send them to me by email…

Ciao…

Philippe Hébert
clubtraindirect@outlook.com

New book : TROLLEY WIRES TO RUBBER TIRES: Burlington, Winooski, Essex Junction, Vermont

TROLLEY WIRES TO RUBBER TIRES: Burlington, Winooski, Essex Junction, Vermont
By James R. “Jim” Jones. Burlington, Vermont’s extensive street railway stretched 16 miles from north to south, and easterly through Winooski to Essex Junction. Immerse yourself in local transportation history from the 1885 horse railway to its state-of-the-art 1893 electrification, merger with the Fort Ethan Allen line, to a ceremonial downtown trolley burning “celebration” as rubber-tired busses began a proud service tradition in August of 1929.
MSRP : 39.99 $US

Email me, this item need to be special ordered…

My “distancing” / Mise à jour de mon “isolement” (update)

Comment added : Aug. 25, 2021
Comment added : Feb. 23, 2021
Comment added : Feb. 22, 2021
Originaly published : Feb. 19, 2021


Hello everyone, following the series of my building on my personal layout (Click the images to enlarge).  My layout is a 2½ deck and mesure (10′ x 19′).  What you see here is the exit of the helix from the lower ½ deck of staging (representing Sherbrooke, Lac Mégatic and the old CPR International of Maine…).  We are now arriving in Magog (PQ) on the middle deck.  When I build the helix (with the good help of Réal Martel), I had “fun” to make sure this portion get “exposed” without obstruction so we can use the switch to the sidding.  The telephone poles need a little more “loving” and the electronic need to be completed for automatic detection in the helix.  If you wish to share your projects, you can write comments to this article or send them to me by email…

                

Bonjour à tous, aujourd’hui je continue de vous présenter la construction de mon réseau (cliquez les images pour les agrandir).  Mon réseau compte 2,5 étages et mesure (10′ x 19′)  Je vous présente la sortie de l’hélix provenant du premier étage (demi “staging” représentant Sherbrokke, Lac Mégantic et le classique du “International of Maine” du CPR).  Nous arrivons à Magog (QC) sur l’étage du milieu.  Quand j’ai construit l’hélix (avec la précieuse aide de Réal Martel), j’ai eu du “plaisir” de m’assurer d’exposer, sans cacher cette partie pour pouvoir utiliser l’aiguillage de la voie d’évitement.  Les poteaux de téléphone on besoin encore d’un peu d’amour et l’électronique doit être compléter la détection automatique dans l’hélix.  Si vous désirez partager vos projets, vous pouvez écrire des commentaires à cet article ou me les envoyer par courriel…

Ciao…

Philippe Hébert
clubtraindirect@outlook.com

Update : My “distancing” / Mise à jour de mon “isolement”

Hello everyone. Following up on discussions with some of you, here’s where my project is at (Previously posted: https://clubtraindirect.com/my-distancing-mon-isolement/ & and while the girls play, me too: https://clubtraindirect.com/when-its-to-hot-%e2%98%80-quand-il-fait-trop-chaud/) When it’s too hot to work outside, I go downstairs to play with it my own trains (which evolves more quickly in the summer, in my case). Finally, grass!!! We can start to forget the plywood emporium! 🙂 The double bridge on the left is still not finished. It is progressing well, all that remains is to color “the road” and glue the decks to the pillars. The most difficult of this achievement does not even appear in these pictures: backdrop, ballast and greenery in the first 12 inches of the tunnel created by the helix. If you wish to share your projects, you can write comments to this article or send them to me by email…
       
Bonjour à vous tous.  Pour faire suite à des discussions avec certain d’entre vous, voici où mon projet est rendu (Publié précédemment : https://clubtraindirect.com/my-distancing-mon-isolement/  & et pendant que les filles jouent, moi aussi : https://clubtraindirect.com/when-its-to-hot-%e2%98%80-quand-il-fait-trop-chaud/)  Quand il fait trop chaud pour travailler dehors, je descends en bas jouer avec mes trains (qui évolue plus rapidement l’été, dans mon cas).  Enfin, du gazon!!!  On oublie l’empire du contre-plaqué! 🙂  Le double pont à gauche n’est toujours pas terminé, il avance bien, il ne reste qu’à mettre “la route” en couleur et coller les tabliers aux piliers.  Le plus difficile de cette réalisation ne parait même pas dans ces photos : “backdrop”, ballast et verdure dans le premier 12 pouces du tunnel créé par l’hélix.  Si vous désirez partager vos projets, vous pouvez écrire des commentaires à cet article ou me les envoyer par courriel…

Ciao…

Philippe Hébert
clubtraindirect@outlook.com