I thought I'd already posted images of the other DC&F kits I've built recently. I thought wrong so here are a few images of the 2 B&O RR style pot hoppers and 2 PRR stock cars, both lettered for the DCRR.

 

Earlier today I sprayed Dulcote on the 2 newest pieces of rolling stock to run on the Delaware Central, two 28'8" B&O RR cotton cars. I built these from Dykstra Car & Foundry kits. 

 

I just completed an American Model Builders, Inc., Laserkit Xpress Loft Barn kit.  The 1st image is of an O scale version of the kit as intended to be built and used for advertising. The 2nd 3 images show the kit almost ready to install on the layout. I am not sure of the final location for the installation, and I still need to remove some of the fuzz and further weather the kit before I hit the model will Dulcote.

I replaced the kit's sub roof with 1/64th" thick plywood from Northeastern Scale Lumber. I used Bar Mills shingles for the roof rather than the roll roofing supplied with the kit. I also added scratch-built door handles to the side doors and the pulley mechanism over the upper loft door. The pulley mechanism is a metal casting. I am not sure of the manufacturer. 

 I thought I'd post some images from my Civil War era RR pass collection. The bulk of the following images are passes for Col. H.L. Robinson, the front man for the Lincoln funeral train. There are some USMRR passes at the end of this posting.

 I forgot to post that I made business cards for the Delaware Central Rail Road & Steam Navigation Company using Avery templates. Here are scans of the front and back of the cards.

I made these to distribute to attendees of my clinics at the National Model Railroaders Convention in Chattanooga a few weeks ago. I also designed and had Avery print business cards for my American Civil War Rail Roads Historical Society organization.

 I just acquired that following photograph. On the left-hand edge of my scan there is a date of 10/11/1926. On the back of the photograph, written in pencil (which usually indicates someone is familiar with archival/photo preservation standards) the following:

"United States Military Rail Roads [sic, note it is Rail Roads and NOT

      Railroads]

Col. Holabird
Built by USQMD [indicating it was built by the United States

      Quartermaster Department]

Algiers, LA
1865"

I love the details in this image. Note that the rail is the old pear shaped/brown rail. There are NO tie plates, and the rails are attached to the ties with a single spike on the inside and a single spike on the outside. The artistry on that passenger coach is marvelous! Makes me wish I had a laser cutter and the knowledge & skill to use it. Look at that switch stand too.

Click on the image to enlarge this jpeg copy. I tried to upload the tiff copy I processed as the detail is even more discernable, but the file size is too large for this humble blog.

Thought I should go ahead and scan the back of the photograph as well.

This morning I thought it might be good to share where Algiers, LA is located. It is across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, southeast of the City.

Here are some of the layout photos I took yesterday. 

A William Crooks 4-4-0 model built by the late Rhett Tyler in the rear, a brass Jupiter 4-4-0 factory painted model in the center, and a Samhongsa factory painted CP Huntington 4-2-4 in front of my scratch-built engine house based on the one used by Grant's army at City Point, VA in 1864.

Two views of the engine house interior, in situ on the layout, as is stood yesterday. I still have lots of details for the interior & the model is need of weathering. 

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A stock train crossing the trestle, small gons of coal pulled by the CP Huntington arriving, and a DCRR passenger train departing for Wilmington and then the west.

A regularly scheduled DCRR freight train emerging from the hidden loop behind LaGare and pulling into the town itself. That is an old friend, David Cain, looking out of the window of "Cain's Woodworking & Fine Furniture." The original sign on the stone structure deteriorated and I have to make a replacement. The tunnel is fully brick lined and lifts out for access to the track behind it. Obviously, there is lots of scenery work that needs to be done.

Crow Car & Foundry is the largest industry on the layout. It warrants its own switch engine. The CP Huntington is a stand-in until the new switch engine arrives. Some kit bashing and ALOT of scratch-building went into my model of the CC&F main building shown here. 

A couple of freight trains on the long dock. The dock is 43" long but the "blue sky" backdrop is not that long so the photo is cropped quite a bit so the photo doesn't show the unfinished layout behind it. There are currently 1,440 n/b/w castings in the dock. Eventually side bracing and hundreds more n/b/w castings will be used.

Looking down the long dock toward the engine house in the right rear.