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Railroad Prototype Modelers REPORTING/Trevor Marshall, photographs by the author New England offers a lot to
model railway enthusiasts, in- cluding some of the most beauti- ful scenes one could ever hope to replicate on a layout and hand- some trains to run through them. The home teams were well-repre- sented at the 2015 New England/ Northeast RPM Meet, held at a community center in Collinsville, Connecticut, this past May. New England wasn’t the only
Andy Rubbo of New Jersey models the Pennsylvania Railroad under wire, circa 1967, on his HO-scale New York Division layout. He displayed this impressive example of a PRR-style catenary. Andy scratchbuilds his catenary supports from brass and resin casti ngs he creates. He then solders together his impressive catenary from phosphor bronze wire, which he buys in three-foot lengths from Don Tichy at Tichy Train Group. When Don found out what Andy was building with the wire, Don developed an injecti on-molded plasti c insulator to help Andy correctly model the catenary. The fi nished catenary is brush painted with a custom mix to replicate the green pati na, while the transmission, signal, and ground lines are made from EZ Line.
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railroad subject on offer at the 13th edition of this annual event. Some 180 modelers arrived from all over the U.S. (including a few — like me — from Canada) for two days of sharing, learning, and fun.
The meet’s organizers put to-
gether a great event, featuring many vendors, a white elephant sale, and a raffle with prizes do- nated by various manufacturers. RPM meets are inspiring. The
more than three dozen clinics this year covered a broad range of top- ics of interest to anybody wanting
to build better models and layouts — regardless of favorite scale, gauge, prototype, theme, or era. Inspiration was also to be
found in the hundreds of models attendees brought to the meet — the accompanying photos provide only a small sampling from the display room. (To see more, check out the Extra Board section on the RMC website: www.rrmodelcrafts-
man.com.) Plans are already underway for
next year’s New England / North- east RPM Meet. Bookmark the meet’s website (
http://www.nepro-
totypemeet.com); hopefully, we’ll see you there next time.
Above: Joe Smith from Pennsylvania displayed two in-progress HO models of New Haven EP-3 electric locomoti ves. Joe notes that Pennsylvania Railroad’s iconic GG-1 was designed following tests with New Haven EP-3s and used the same frame and wheels, so Joe started with Bach- mann GG-1 models and scratchbuilt the superstructures.
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