Great Northwestern Railway

 Since I was on a roll with decals for the two industrial railroads, another languishing project has been getting some GNW cabooses and other equipment painted and lettered. You may have noticed in the photos, the GWN has been using SP equipment and cabeese. This needs to change!  Of note, the GNW has 2 paint schemes for their cabooses. One is a kind of orange, reminiscent of the D&RGW; the other is a classic "red caboose" theme. Both use the same lettering size, but one uses black lettering, and the other uses white.    Neither had the GNW logo, so the new decals would take care of that deficiency! I had previously worked with Circus City to make up GNW decals for engines. So I reached out to him for this rolling stock. I was mostly interested in packing in as many GNW logos and lettering as I could, since I could get things like equipment data decals fairly easily and at a much lower cost per sheet. So working with Matt over at Circus City, we came up with a sh...

 Getting back into the swing and moving some things forward. One of those projects that I have been looking forward to is customizing a couple private railroad operations. One is the Ojitas Mine Railroad, which provides a fair amount of traffic for the layout. This takes cars from a short hidden staging location to interchange at Rosita. I plan to have the Ojitas RR own a few 70 Tonners and a caboose or two. Ojitas means "small eyes" in Spanish, so I set about looking for a suitable logo. A few google searches turned up a plethora of options. I settled on one, albeit it was in multiple colors. Not being one that wanted to spend much on decals, I used some color manipulation software to create a pure black and white image. I kinda like how it turned out. Pulls in the "ojitas" concept while carrying the idea of a rugged southwest mining operation. And simple enough to suggest a cheap corporate look. The other operation is the newly completed Halcon Cement plant. Not a...