Clinician: DC Cebula – Philly Express

CLINIC: Scratch Building the City Point Engine House from Historic Photos
DAY: Saturday	TIME: 9:30-10:30am	ROOM: Wayne
DESCRIPTION: How do you model a prototype when no written documentation exists? This presentation covers the process used to scratch build the USMRR engine house at City Point, VA, using historic images. Subtopics include locating photographs, analyzing/interpreting said photographs, filling in “the blanks,” materials used, construction techniques and jigs, remodeling the model in light of newly uncovered information, and what I might do differently (and why).

About the Clinician...

Credentials:
• Instigator and eventually co-founder of the American Civil War Rail Road Historical Society
• Group owner and lead moderator, of the ACWRRHS at [email protected] (previously on Yahoo groups)
• Photographer, presenter/clinician, and author on American Civil War railroad topics
• Produced and published calendars for the ACWRRHS
• Collector and preservationist of ACWRR artifacts
• Builder & owner of the HO-scale Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company
• Co-builder and main troublemaker on Thom Radice’s HO-scale “north branch” of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
• Publisher of a blog on the HO-scale DCRR & Navigation Company at delawarecentralrailroad.blogspot.com (Delaware Central Rail Road and Navigation Company: 2023)
Background
• Grandfather had worked for Pittsburgh & West Virginia RR out of Avella, PA
• As a boy, my grandfather took me to look down at trains switching the yards far below in Holiday’s Cove, Weirton, WV
• Scale trains around Christmas tree and in attic as boy. Modeled HO-scale model buildings
• Collected Civil War trading cards while others collected baseball trading cards in the 1960s
• Worked on a track gang for C&NW in early 1970s
• Returned to hobby in late 1970s to operate trains around Christmas tree…. Some might say things got out of hand.