A Modeling Bench; Part Two, Adding a Cutting Surface.

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Ilchester, Maryland, Part Four; The Railroad Customer, Bartigis Brothers.

A brief history of the Bartgis Brothers Steam Plant on the Patapsco River in Ilchester, MD, along with how to model it in HO scale.

by bomodeling December 21, 2025January 7, 2026

Brass HO Scale B&O Q-4 Mike “Water Bottles”

The more I researched the trains that ran on the Old Main Line (OML) in 1950, the more I realized that the mainline freight trains on the Baltimore Division were almost completely steam-powered during that time. My early assumption was that newer diesel engines carried through freights to Philly through Baltimore from Brunswick, MD. But…

by bomodeling March 15, 2024November 7, 2025

Some Special Freight Cars on My B&O Old Main Line. Thank You Bill Welch.

In the early 2000’s listserves started to take off and I met Bill Welch on a modeling group. I was busy with a young child and was trying to fit in some modeling time. He was retired, a great friend, and supporter. And with Bill’s support and the tremendous help of Al Buchan, I started…

by bomodeling August 13, 2023November 7, 2025

My Basic Scenery Techniques: Vegetation, Ballast, and Relics of the Old Main Line.

Some parts of the B&O Old Main Line (OML) remain and remind us that this was not always a shortcut to Baltimore from the west. It was built as a permanent structure to move freight from the middle of the country to its ports in its first 50 years of existence. My layout is set…

by bomodeling August 13, 2023November 7, 2025

BLI USRA Light Mikado to Replicate B&O USRA Light “Mike” Class Q-3 #4522 – Part One – Replacing the Model’s Drive, DCC, and Sound.

This is part one of a how to for transforming a BLI Light Mikado into 1950 era B&O Q-3 Mike.

by bomodeling May 27, 2023March 29, 2024

Ilchester, Maryland, Part Five; The Railroad Infrastructure. The Freight House.

The Freight House This part of the Ilchester railroad infrastructure seems to be fairly short-lived, it was around in my era of 1950, and very camera shy. It appears in parts in only a few photos I can find after years of searching. It is the raised Freight House on the left side of the…

by bomodeling February 18, 2023March 28, 2024

B&O M-24 USRA 40′ Boxcar – Achieving a Color Shift on a Rapido Model

This is a quick blog post so that others faced with a similar dilemma can see if they can use my techniques to shift the factory applied paint on their Rapido USRA B&O M-24 boxcar. I have several other blog posts and models I am working on, but this was an unexpected issue that came…

by bomodeling October 12, 2022November 7, 2025

The Northern Central Railway (NCR) Trail. A View from My Bike. Ashland, MD to Parkton, MD.

If you have ever worked within the beverage industry you know the fierce rivalry between Coke and Pepsi. I had a summer job at the beach delivering Coca-Cola syrup and I learned the intensity of the rivalry. Like Michigan vs. Ohio State, you don’t ever mention the competitor’s name, let alone give them any credit…

by bomodeling March 21, 2022November 7, 2025

My Basic Scenery Techniques: Adding Figures

The one thing I have noticed that is absent from model railroad blogs is painting and modifying HO scale figures. I never paid much attention to them and then I realized from photos of other’s layouts that they add an important dimension. Scale. Nothing makes a steam locomotive look larger than than life in HO…

by bomodeling March 6, 2022November 7, 2025

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