Model Railroading Kilted

[Chrissss]

I'm green with envy for that beautiful two-truck shay.

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I have a model railway layout in a spare room. This is a model of the Sprinter train "The Kilmarnock Edition" which runs on The Burns Line and some x-markers might have travelled on between Prestwick Airport and Dumfries.

Most of you will be more familiar with the VIA rail Budd Rail Deisel Car, as seen on Vancouver Island.

Hey, I didn't know VIA had set up running rights in Scotland!
Those Budd Rail cars are nice runners. Good choice!

The Shay is a Bachmann Spectrum 80 ton that I superdetailed and weathered-up to look nice & grubby. My next project is a brass 2-6-6-2T logging engine I recently acquired. I happen to know that the engine crew will be kilted on this loco...

Chris...

[Nick the DSM]

i used to. i have a lionel and then i have some really old ones, have no idea what brand though.

[Gryphon noir]

I don't have a model railroad at present, but I have been tinkering with HO scale Bachmann Brill streetcar models in an effort to approximate cars that actually ran on Vancouver streets 'till the early fifties.
The inspiration? Call it genetic--two of my cousins were Lord Strathcona and George Stephen, so railroading is in the [Scottish!] blood. Aside from that, I actually drive an interurban during the summer. The picture in my profile was taken inside the cab of BC Electric car #1207, built in 1905.
No, I've never heard of a kilted motorman, nor a kilted postie, but I have attended both Post Office Christmas parties and Transit Museum Society functions kilted.....

[O'Neille]

I used to have a trunk full of N guage stuff when I was a kid. I grew up in Alaska and there was really nowhere for everything to stay set up (small houses). They were stolen in a burglary about 20 years ago. I still have a few years of Model railroad magazine in binders from the early 70s around here somewhere.