Monthly Archives: September 2024

In Memoriam: Michael Rahilly

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Michael Rahilly passed away tonight. He was my friend and we often traveled to shows together sharing a table. Above is an image of Michael behind the table enjoying selling supplies that we all needed.

Michael was also a very good modeler, having won a number of awards at the O Scale Nationals for models like what is shown below.

Most folks will remember Michael in his usual spot at the Strasburg Show across from the kitchen window on the end of the first isle. Here he is behind the table with his oldest daughter Lauren helping him during the show.

Michael was a father of three daughters, a former train conductor, a locomotive engineer, a rules examiner for NJ Transit, a fine modeler and also my friend. I will miss him.

What’s on the Workbench?

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There has been a lot going on recently, but not that much train related. My biggest project recently has been cleaning in the train room and getting the workbench cleaned off again. There is a flyer on the bench from Kadee. I do have some of their new Proto48 trucks in. I will post some photos once the workbench is cleared off.

I did get some painting done in the last month or so. My friend needed a couple of P70 under frames painted black.

While getting those painted I did manage to paint some open hoppers on the same day. A couple of RY Models fish belly twins for the Reading and behind them a pair of PSC offset hopper cars. The PSC car will be decorated for off road hopper cars.

Something was not right.

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Sorry for the site being down over the weekend. I was reviewing some things within the admin tool for the site and followed the wrong advice. Turned out that created a conflict with a plug-in, which created a fatal error on the site.

Trying to correct that took a little work. Let’s just say that now I know more about editing the database behind the site. Conflict resolved.

I’m back on track and the site is working again. It was a very frustrating couple of days. Back to modeling.