Thursday, 10 April 2025

Peter Mumby's On30" Module


My good friend Peter Mumby who recently passed left me his On30" module that we both built together plus his rolling stock to go with it. I took the structures off it plus the legs and moved it to my home. At the moment it is in the garage till I have a helper to get it downstairs. The thought is I will attach this one to mine for a bit. I am planning a wall mounted On30" layout built on Styrofoam base sections which could be taken to shows as displays. So at some point I will take the frame apart and possibly narrow the two modules down a bit...stay tuned...George Dutka



Monday, 7 April 2025

Standard Gauge Flatcar

My weekend find at our local train show. It came with a crew member handling the brake wheel. Hope his salary is not too much as I cleaned out my cash yesterday to purchase this car.
A new interchange track and this car can work well together. This model is either a kit or scratch-built wood model. I think I may change the name to MEC...George Dutka

Friday, 21 March 2025

Peter Mumby

Peter and I visited the F&SM during the Fine Scale EXPO of 2016.
My good friend Peter Mumby passed away at the age of 75 yesterday. We have know each other for over 40 years We have been together railfanning, modeling and attending family get-togethers. I will really miss him going forward. Peter was very helpful over the years with my blog as we both have done some On30" modeling together. Here are a few views of Peter that I would like to share...George Dutka 

Visiting BarMills narrow gauge layout in 2016.

Peter and I are seen on one of our Monday afternoon workshops. Sometimes we would build something, other times we just ran trains and talked.

Peter and I worked the WOD-NMRA Craftsman Corner at the last train show in our area before the Covid lock down. March 2020. Kitchener, Ont.

Peter and I spent a lot of time trackside over the years...here is a shot I included him in.

Us together checking out George's wonderful layout. A great trip I will never forget.

Holding up the marker 2016.

Monday, 10 March 2025

Bar Mills - Springfield 2025


Bar Mills had their large display setup at Springfield once again. Although not narrow gauge they are models that could fit into any scene as fill-in's. I really like their Maine scene at their shop...George Dutka   

Sunday, 9 March 2025

Springfield 2025


A nice selection of narrow gauge photos where offered for sale.


Just a few views of what I saw displayed that is two-footer related...George Dutka


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Monday, 17 February 2025

WW&F Magazines


Sorry I have been falling behind with posts. This one show you some of the WW&F Magazines that were being handed out at this January's Springfield train show...I have not been to Maine and visited the two footers since 2016. Boy how time flies...George Dutka

Monday, 13 January 2025

Two More - On30" Bachmann Rolling Stock

 

Two more of my small fleet of narrow gauge rolling stock...George Dutka  

Thursday, 2 January 2025

A Bit of my On30" Collection

Two of my Bachmann On30" pieces of rolling stock. The boxcar has the door open on one side showing a bit of a load...George Dutka