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  • Home Shops Has a New Look!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    Home Shops is pleased to announce that we have a new look!  When you launch a company from scratch, there are many details that need to be add...
    Posted in Home Shops LLC

  • HAPPY LABOR DAY from HOME SHOPS!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    Happy Labor Day from www.homeshops.net! Here is a sneak peak of the first two shop laborers placed on the painting "Home Shops" by artist Rober...
    Posted in Railroad Art

  • Home Shops Has A YouTube Channel!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    Check Out Our First Video! Home Shops LLC has officially launched a YouTube Channel! “Modelling Amtrak in a Freelance World” is the first vide...

  • Introducing the Great Divide Podcast!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    A Focus on Freelance Model Railroading from the Land Down Under! Proof of the awesome connective power afforded by Social Media is the new Grea...
    Posted in Freelance Railroad

  • Build a Custom Bulletin Board

    by Guest Author
    © 2021 MARK STEENWYK - Guest Author To‌ ‌further‌ ‌the‌ ‌prototypical‌ ‌representation‌ ‌of‌ ‌railroads,‌ ‌some‌ ‌modelers‌ ‌also‌ ‌try‌ ‌to ...

  • About Our First-Release Road Names!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    Deservedly so, we have heard plenty of questions about the selection of Freelance Model Railroads that are represented in the very first Limite...

  • When Prototype and Freelance Interchange: Home Shops cars on the Onondaga Cutoff

    by Guest Author
    © 2021 DAVE ABELES - Guest Author Railroading is railroading, and modeling railroading is what takes a layout to the next level. What makes mod...

  • Two Sides of the Same Coin

    by Guest Author
    Prototype and Freelance Modeling © 2021 WALKER EMBRY - Guest Author Most of us have gotten our start in the hobby of model railroading in what ...
    Posted in Freelance Railroad

  • aModelersLife Episode No. 174

    by Christopher Palmieri
    Play aModelersLife No. 174 As mentioned in an earlier blog post, Lionel Strang and Tony Cook interviewed me on an aModelersLife podcast back i...

  • FRANK ELLISON and the DELTA LINES

    by Guest Author
    © 2005-2021 MICHAEL M. PALMIERI - Guest Author One of Louisiana's best-known railroad figures wasn't a railroader or a railfan, he was a modeler...

  • Art and a Signature

    by Christopher Palmieri
    At Home Shops we want to emphasize that well done freelance rolling stock and locomotives are valuable works of art in their own right. To tha...
    Posted in Freelance Railroad, Home Shops, Model Trains, Proto Freelance Railroad, Railroad Art

  • 2021 DFW/Red River RPM – Our First Trade Show!

    by Christopher Palmieri
    The first-ever Red River (DFW area) RPM was held in Forrest Hill on Saturday, June 26, 2021! This would also be the very first trade show in w...
    Posted in Home Shops LLC, Home Shops;, Model Railroad, Model Railroad News, Red River RPM, Tangent Scale Models, Train Show
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