Well Large Scale Consolidated Live fans, we have another exciting show with a great guest we’re sure everyone will Enjoy! We’ll be talking with Jonathan Huse who has done some amazing things in G Scale and see what new projects he has lined up. Jonathan has been into large scale for around ten years now and has definitely made some waves with what he has done. Probably one of his most impressive projects was the creation of his g scale Union Pacific DDA40X! If you haven’t seen this locomotive in g scale before you’re going to want to see it! Jonathan also makes several different kits for upgrading, modifying and repairing g scale locomotives and cars. All of which you can see on his website listed below. Don’t worry, we’ll get to see Jonathan’s layout as well and how he controls his turnouts pneumatically.
Written by Andrew Fitch
On this episode of Large Scale Consolidated Live our guest is Charlie Zimmerman. Charlie has been into model railroading since 1982 and G scale since 2010. Charlie has his own garden railroad, the Smoke & Oak Railroad of which you can see many videos of on his YouTube channel “Garden RR”.
One thing you will notice right away when seeing Charlie’s railroad is he prides himself on having unique locomotives and rolling stock which includes doing prototypical weathering. During this show Charlie will show us some examples of custom work he has done but the primary focus is going to be on showing everyone how to weather a boxcar. We’ll go from a clean car to a fully weathered one by the end of the show and anyone should be able to weather their own trains after watching this show.
We would also like to mention that Charlie is also a Contributing editor of Live Steam and Backyard RR magazine. In addition to that he is also an excellent photographer with several photos in Garden Railways and Railpace magazine over the years.