Watch Workin on the Railroad online: Episode 9 Weathering

In this episode, host Chris Chianelli visits Greenfield Village part of the massive museum called The Henry Ford. Henry Ford was passionate about saving buildings and artifacts from Americana, and Greenfield Village is part of that vision. Greenfield Village not only features an impressive collection of restored and preserved buildings and homes dating back to the 18th century. But the staff here is constantly struggling between preserving and restoring, and presenting the building as it would have looked in the appropriate era. That's where weathering comes in. It's a natural patina caused by climate changes. The same holds true for a realistic model railroad. Later in the program, Chris visits a model railroader who knows about weathering. You might say he?s obsessed with creating realistic buildings with the appropriate weathering for a layout based in the Rocky Mountains in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Then, later, Chris Chianelli is joined in the studio by guest John Lowrance (Master Model Railroader). John demonstrates various methods of weathering as he shows how to weather a freight car.

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