About Us

Our Company

In 1999 New England Custom Rail was started because one of the principals was unable to find quality custom HO scale models that accurately represented some of the engines that worked the rails here in New England. This included some of the present day museum pieces at the tourist railroads. An example of this would be one of the engines on the Conway Scenic Railroad roster. For years he had been collecting custom engines one at a time as he was able to find them. But after awhile there was the prospect that particular engines were not coming to market due to the high cost of custom decals and low volume demand. Having discussed the issue with one of the local hobby storeowners and one of the custom painters and decal supplier that the hobby shop used, he was told that the special graphics were not worth the effort. At this point the model rail enthusiast tried to cobble together a model using a quality engine and parts from a couple of decal sets combined with dry transfer letters and detail parts. The result was OK, but there was still one decal missing - the silhouette of the North Conway station. Hand painting just was not going to yield the desired result. Frustration!!!

Model railroading was just a hobby so now what? In this case the hobbyist was by profession a computer consultant, with a background in systems integration and some photographic and graphic arts capabilities. What needed to get done was to generate the special multi layered artwork and then print the graphics. This was first tried with an inkjet printer with poor results, which just doubled the  FRUSTRATION!!!! After doing some research on the web a solution was found.  There was (at the time) a printer that used a different technology to generate its output. This then became the only reasonable possibility. It was the only way to do something like this without having several hundred sheets of decals printed. So in August of 1999 a special printer was purchased and the first decals were printed here at what has now become New England Custom Rail.

The result of all of the frustration was the creation of New England Custom Rail.

We believe our customers are interested in QUALITY craftsmanship. When contacted we listen to the customers wishes and then we prepare the appropriate documentation for the customers approval. Once project details are agreed to we then scheduled the project and work towards its completion. 

We hope you spend some time looking over our web site and find our Products and Services of interest. Any comments or suggestion can be sent to requests@newenglandcustomrail.com . Your feedback is welcome.  If you don’t see what you want, then send us a request, you never know it may already be in process.

Sincerely

The Staff of New England Custom Rail