For this year’s Bring and Brag contest, again the January category was Anything Goes, we had five contestants. After member voting, the winners were chosen, as follows:

1st place went to Neil Schorr for his submission of an O scale Cape Cod house. It is a model of a Cape Cod house built out of a Scale University (no longer in business) craftsman kit. Neil considers it to be one of the most difficult craftsman kits he's ever assembled. The kit is largely stock with the exception of the raised seam metal roof which is commonly seen is the real world, but seldom modeled. Also not the multicolored brick, this was accomplished by using flat red primer for the bricks, then coloring some of the bricks with a very fine tipped purple pencil. This house is supposed to be the neighborhood gem, so weathering is minimal aside from blackening the top of the chimney, applying a bit of dust to the roof, and adding mortar to the brick work.

2nd place went to Bill Auman for his entry of an O-Scale Blast Furnace, his first entry in the monthly contest!

We had 2 Third Place recipients, the two winners are:

3rd place went to Denny Lippert for his HO Scale Norfolk and Western caboose.

Local Flavor: Believe it or not, Athearn has made a model of a P&WV caboose! Nothing done to it aside from Kadees and light weathering.

3rd place went to Steve Ross for his HO Scale Lackawanna 2-8-0 Consolidation Class F19b #384. It started as a Bachmann Spectrum model to which he applied numerous details, light weathering, and an origin story for this fictional engine.

One additional entry was submitted for the January contest Anything Goes.

The fifth and final entry was Vagel Keller's "vintage 1938" photo of his South Penn layout's blast furnace and pig-caster on his Black Log and Shade Gap Eastern Railroad layout.

This page is based on the Keystone Flyer and emails from Dominic Martinelli.