Paul's Hobby Work Shop
Perch Lake Lumber CO. Layout Rebuild Under Construction (Link Here)
Updated 3/23/23
I am continuing to upgrade repair and install DCC equipment in my own and fellow modelers equipment. I will continue to use a verity of decoders and sound systems in the many types of locomotives. You may see the upgrade of an older locomotive may be more costly than the purchase of a new loco, but as we have locomotives that we have detailed or that are not otherwise available we are willing to bear the cost of the upgrade.
Please check in as I make the changes to the Locomotive Shop as well as my rebuilding of my Perch Lumber Company layout.
Thanks, Paul
WORKING IN THE LOCOMOTIVE SHOP
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Building Auto racks models from older (1991) Walther's kits
Father and Grandfather at Illinois Railroad Museum (Click Here)
Rico Station as modified to match Malcolm Furlow's San Juan Central Montrose Station (Click Here)
Removal of the #6 Doble Crossover (Click here)
Perch Lake Lumber CO. Layout Rebuild Under Construction (Link Here)
After HOn3 and HO lumber wood roadbed issues with the temperature and humidity opening gaps and dislocating turnouts, I am rebuilding by adding an additional 1/2" pink foam and foam roadbed. This will match the club's module construction which has worked fine in the North Woods. This includes the siding ideas.
HOn3 scratch-built Bobber Caboose (Click Here)
Progress 4/4/21
On the Railroad Lights and Decoders
SOO 459 Repaired (Click Here)
Progress in the workshop, a Shop Sparrow for the Three Lakes Shop.
On the right a new Shop Sparrow for the Three Lakes Shop, this one out of Plywood. On the Left is the original that Brian and I found while camping at Lake Thompson east of Rhinelander in the early 1990s. We each made new ones that hang in our shop in IL. This one I made on my original Montgomery Ward Power Craft Jig Saw.
LCC and DCC Testing
I have decided to advance the testing and signaling with LCC to the layout level. I am keeping the Demo / Testing module but will be installing LCC on the Perch Lake Lumber Company HOn3 Layout. (for Progress click here)
Rebuilding of Mantua 4-6-2 
Check out Club Projects for the rebuilding of Mantua 4-6-2 and more
Structures under Construction for Scenery
Printing Ore car frames for MDC Ore Cars
*Passenger Cars*
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Laser Cut UDP Panel for DCC controls
Note the connections are at the top to avoid dirt and shorting
Super detailed Kadee Logging caboose
Woodboro Warehouse
Photos of scratch built PLL #3
Here are some of the parts going into the model. Interior walls were cut from .020" evergreen siding and painted a light green which conforms to the interior of prototype caboose. The floor is also cut from Evergreen plastic and painted with Floquil Foundation as is the underside of the roof. Die marks in the roof were removed and extra bracing was added before airbrushing. The doors were only detailed on the outside so i added frames and 3 panels to the inside before painting. Hand rails and grab irons were paint black as were the steps. Windows and doors, inside and out were painted Boxcar Red.
Additional cars under construction include Way cars for HO and HOn3 from my own drawings and including interior details. These were cut on the Laser cutter at the Fab Lab in The Three Lakes School. Drawings are available to scale these cars to S or O scale.
These are test sets of cars cut and assembled to look over the size and shape.(left is HOn3 right is HO in each photo)
*Woodboro Store Progress**New Warehouse Drawings*
Taking a ride on my Private Car to the BSA Merit Badge Session
"Current News" Help Me I am Melting
Using Circuit Breakers on DCC layouts
The WC / SOO Line Rhinelander Scale House
Atlas Signal Tower Kit bashing Project
Kit bashing a boxcar into a Fictional Prototype near Wolf Creek MT
Black Jack's Bar
Lelah Starks Certified Seed Potato Warehouse, Starks WI (SOO MP 227)
Modeling Starks WI
Woodboro WI founded by the Woods Lumber Co.
Building a model of Woodboro WI, General Store and Warehouse
**Building Pickle Tub Cars in HO and HOn3**
Scratch Built and Kit bashed rolling stock
Modular Layouts
Perch Lake and Superior 
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