Category: model building

The cement plant unloading area will be built on the beach side of the refueling tracks.Some good old-fashioned scratch building has been undertaken alongside Philden Beach, with the area between the diesel refueling tracks and the No. 1 track or beach…

Late on a hot August night, the small bus depot that had stood alongside the tracks at Philden Beach saw the drivers sign-off for one last time and the two luxury motor coaches quietly disappear in the dead of night.With the busses gone, the witches’ h…

This past week I returned to some old-fashioned model building projects. My task was to reconfigure the cement plant building from my old Philden layout so that it could be easily transplanted onto my Philden Beach HO scale shelf layout. As the model h…

Cement trains could begin calling at Philden Beach later in 2024.It’s been over 5 years since I dismantled my original Philden layout, (see the Philden Museum page for its complete history), during which my former cement plant had been carefully stored…