by Bernard Traffic | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve never written about WHY I chose to model the Quebec Gatineau Railway. Until now. Wayyy back in 2012/2013 when I was contemplating building a model railroad I was the Toronto sales guy for Canadian recycled paper manufacturer Cascades. Cascades owned the...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Eric Gagnon in his excellent Trackside Treasure blog suggested that 2020 was the year to Model & Railfan Local. He suggested that we do ‘a moustache’ and look at what’s right under our noses. That got me thinking for a couple of reasons. I run a...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
My project for the holiday break was to build a Walters plastic kit as a movie prop that my film-student son wanted to use for a stop-action animation project. I figured this was a good chance to practise a few techniques. I had picked up a Walthers American Hardware...
by Bernard Traffic | Jan 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
New decade, new post… Three years ago in January 2017 (what the hell!!!) I presented my (clearly) overly optimistic list of ‘to-dos’. Since a bunch of time has passed, it seemed to be time (ya think?) to check back in and re-evaluate where I am now and where I...