I completed building a RailroadKITS' "Dannen Feeds" this morning. Of course, I can never leave well enough alone. I replaced the kit's roll roofing with shake shingles from Bar Mills. I built the office extension to the right of the main part of the structure from clapboard scraps from some unknown previous structure build. The office door was a metal casting scrounged from my drawer of doors. Likewise, the large double doors. The kits' double door just didn't look right on the unpainted structure I built. The door seemed too modern & pristine. The hinges on the large doors are strap hinges from Tichy Train. I made the scale 12" door handles from .0125" Tichy wire. I tried my best to get the "wood" of the plastic door to match the stained Northeastern Scale Lumber 2x6" trim. The flag is prototypically correct for the Civil War. To make it I photocopied a decal sheet of Microscale Civil War Union flags. Then I reduced the image size on my computer, placed the image on a word document, and printed out the results. It took me 2 tries to get the appropriate size. The flag pole is a broken #78 drill bit.

The workbench on barrels is a 3D print. The two sacks on the bench is a metal casting from a Fine Scale Miniatures clone. 

Here is how the manufacturer advertises the kit.

And here are some other examples of the kit as built by others.

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.