February’s Bring’n’Brag subject was “Motive Power: Diesel, Electric and Traction.” We had only one entry for this month.

1st Place went to Rick Montgomery for his HO scale CSX #7765, a Dash 8-40. Rick’s starting point for this project was an Atlas Master HO scale model of the GE Dash 8-40 CW, painted in CSX Heritage livery (Chessie System). He weathered the locomotive using Floquil Paint Markers (earth, rail brown, and black) and the Pan Pastels weathering system (powders in raw umber and red iron oxide). Rick’s entry placed first, so it earned three points.

1st place: CSX #7765, by Rick Montgomery

The photo of the locomotive and caboose, as it was entered in the contest, but photographed by Rick on his layout outside of the Proctor & Gamble Tide brand detergent factory in Lima, Ohio. Ironic, since that is one dirty engine!

1st place: CSX #7765 and caboose, by Rick Montgomery, photo by Rick Montgomery

This page is copied from the Keystone Flyer, Bring‘n’Brag article by Tracy Boyd.