 MODELING BACKSHOPS
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CSD
MEMBERS!!!
What is a
Backshop?
On a prototype railroad, the Backshop is where all the
hard work gets done. Depending upon the function performed, the buildings in the
Backshop area were called by different names — flue shop, car repair shed, wheel
balancing shed, erecting house, paint shop, etc. In short, the Backshop is were
the railroad (except for the track) was built.
Our Backshop area is the place where our members share
how they do things to build their railroad. The projects may be as small as how
to add realistic loads to gondolas and flatcars, or as large as how to
scratchbuild an operating scale model steam locomotive, and lots and lots of
things in between. Listed here are pages and links to pages by our members that
talk about how they built things for their model empires.
Member
Projects (on our website):
Easy Detailed Pulpwood Car Loads by Gil Brauch
Member
Projects (links to external websites — you will have to navigate back here on
your own from these sites)
 Jim Allen shares
his modeling on his Southern Exchange
web page.
NCS OCS Train modeling and
prototype photos are on this page on our website.
Other modeling projects can be accessed from his
main web page. Just rollover the
"Lessons I've Learned" selection on the left hand menu and select the project
that interests you.
Here are some N Scale intermodal equipment projects by Gil Brauch:
Classy Chassis - Building Alan Curtis Models intermodal chassis kits
Containerizing
Those Classy Chassis - Installing various manufacturers' containers on
Alan Curtis chassis kits
Building
a Land Train - Putting together various kits to build a double trailer
highway rig
Yard
Tractor Project - How to build the GHQ Yard Tractor kit
Another N Scale project by Gil Brauch:
A Fitting
End - How to combine Kato and Con-Cor Budd Cars to get a model of the
Wabash Blue Bird Dome Observation Car - sort of a Wabash kitbash! | 
