The Buckeye
Hobby projects including cars, photography, woodworking, restoration, and many other things of interest.
Biscuits!
These are buttermilk biscuits using my favorite Betty Crocker recipe. I make them recently, and they came out rather nicely, if I do say so myself. But, there’s an interesting story here. I made the same recipe (sort of ) back around Thanksgiving. I made an error. The standard recipe …
The Train Is In the Yard!
In the previous posts I described the train I was building for holiday decor. This is it completed. You can see the Santa train to the left. This train is inspired by the electric ride-on railroad in the toy department of the Rhodes Department Store in Tacoma in the ’50s …
A New Passenger Car for the Railroad
Well, not exactly the railroad! This is one of the passenger cars that I mentioned in my last post. It is partially painted with a little bit more to go. There’s a lot of pin-striping on this project. In the post from the other day I mentioned that these holiday …
Riding the Milwaukee Road .. Sort of!
Back in the 1950s and through the ’60s the great place to do in Tacoma, Washington was Rhodes Department Store. The big store downtown was a treasure chest of cool things. But, at Christmas time the coolest of the cool was up in the toy department. The Milwaukee Railroad sponsored, …
Spirit of Santa Monica DC3
The Spirit of Santa Monica is a Douglas DC3 on stands in front of the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport. This is especially appropriate as the airport was the home of Douglas Aircraft through World War II. The statue in from of the airplane is of Donald …
Museum of Flying – Santa Monica
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. This is the building for the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport, and it has the nose of a Fed-X 727 protruding. At first it looks like either the coolest advertisement or the worst parking job in history. As it …
Seen at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank
