MODEL PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR


Modeling Seaboard Coast Line E3/E6 No. 501


Kitbashing an HO scale Broadway Limited E6 A-unit/Scott Lupia


retired Lackawanna man, loved the railroad and passed that love for the railroad along to me. He would take my brother and me to the Hollywood train station to watch Amtrak’s Silver Mete- or pass through. Those memories have always stuck with me and fueled my


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s a kid my family used to travel to Florida to visit my grandpar- ents. My grandfather, being a


passion for modeling such things. When I first hired out on NJ Transit, I would work trains in and out of New York Penn Station. I would occasional- ly hear the announcements over the PA system for the Silver Star or Silver Meteor and the memories of being at the Hollywood train station with my grandfather would resurface. It was only a matter of time before I became


interested in modeling that long dis- tance train. Passenger service has been on a steady decline since the 1950’s. Loss of mail contracts, competition with air- lines and widespread automobile trav- el killed long distance passenger trains. Trains that started out as shiny, matched sets of brand new cars and diesel engines morphed into trains of


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