Scratch built refer. Wood and brass construction. Kadee trucksScratch built depressed center flat car. Styrene and wood construction, microtrains trucks. Scratch built rock hopper. Wallnut and styrene construction, Microtrains trucks and couplers. Rare earth magnet in bottom of hopper to pick up any magnetic material from the tracks. This will be used in the MOW track cleaning train.SS Caboose #5 . I painted and decaled this Westside Lumber Co. brass caboose. SS ore car #1. Classic Miniatures kit. Grandt Line trucks.Spitfire Oil Co. #102. Blackstone Models undecorated tank car. I painted and lettered this using decals I made with my color laser jet printer. As a teenager in the 1980’s, you couldn’t pick up a model railroad magazine without the name of Malcolm Furlow in it. His work inspired a generation of model railroaders, and really influenced me to model in HOn3. This is a Hallmark Models brass box car that I painted and decaled. Malcolm built the San Juan Central as a series in Model Railroader Magazine, and then held a drawing to give it away! The layout is now owned by Charlie Getz (former NMRA president, and all around great guy), and will soon be on display at the Sacramento Railroad Museum. I went back through some magazine articles and realized that the decal I used for the car were intended only for the locomotives and cabooses. All the freight cars were simply lettered “SJC.” Oh well, I like it this way. Incidentally, I got the San Juan Central decals from a friend, Michael Davis, and I have no idea where he got them. I have two more sets and I might use them for a locomotive and caboose. Microtrains Reefer I painted. I printed the decals on my laser printer.
