Modelling Maine Railroads

Monon #15012 is an Accurail kit for a fifty foot outside braced boxcar that I built on friday. I purcahsed the car at M. B. Klein, a train store located north of Baltimore, on Monday. The car was an easy build and I think the the car turned out quite well. In my opinion, this type of car really helps set my layout in the 1970s as it is clearly a modern (at least, modern relative to my usual modeled era of the 1950s) boxcar. Considering that my layout is set on a rural branchline in Northern Maine, it seems reasonable to wonder why I would have a Monon boxcar on my layout. Mostly, this boxcar just caught my eye when I was at the train store and as it fits my era, I bought it. It also seems that it would be fairly possible to see a Monon boxcar occasionally in Northern Maine, as I think that the Monon served a fair amount of industry in its territory. I dont know that for a fact of course, as I do not know very much about the Monon. I do know, however, that Maine Central and CP Rail ...

I took a few more pictures of my Mattawamkeag freight house this afternoon. I thought that I should show it with a freight car so as to give a better idea of what size the building is. This gives a general view of the freight house with a boxcar spotted at the door. Another view of the track side of the freight house qith a boxcar spotted at the door. Looking down from roughly where the Mattawamkeag station platform would be located. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photo- the lighting conditions that I took the photograph in were less than ideal.

Like many (most?) model railroaders, I am interested in many different prototype railroads. Recently, I have been working on several structure models depicting buildings on the  Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (W&OD). The W&OD was a shortline that ran from Alexandria and Arlington Virginia, across fromWashington DC, to Purcellville Virginia. Last month I built a model of the W&OD's Dunn Loring station. The model was built from clapboard wood sheet siding with modified windows. I modified the windows to match a prototype photo of the station. The station was built in about five nights of work.